ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 279 News From the Field ACQUISITIONS • The Holmes Book Company has presented a collection of fine California printing to the Cosumnes River College library, Sacramen­ to, California. The printing collection, consist­ ing of books and ephemeral materials, is consid­ ered to be a rare and unique example of the graphic arts. Represented in the collection are such distinguished California printing estab­ lishments as the Grabhorn Press, John Henry Nash, W ard Ritchie, The Book Club of Cali­ fornia, and the Eucalyptus Press. The collec­ tion includes such scarce works as excerpts from the Great Polyglot Bible printed in He­ brew, Greek, and Latin, which includes pages from the Complutensian of Acala (1514— 1517). • The Purdue University libraries have re­ ceived the books and papers of Llewellyn M. K. Boelter which were presented to the univer­ sity by Mrs. Boelter on April 21, 1971. Dean Boelter was well known for his research in heat transfer. First recognition came in the 1920s with the development of the Dittus- Boelter equations. Later in his career he came to Purdue University as a visiting professor in the School of Engineering and in 1957 he re­ ceived an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Purdue University. Dean Boelter’s publications make up an im­ pressive list. Included in the gift collection are fifty-four of his reports and one hundred four of his publications and articles, some of which were authored with collaborators. The collection contains approximately five hundred eighty volumes from his personal library of technically oriented books, thirty-six proceed­ ings from various symposia, two file boxes of progress reports on research projects, four file boxes of lecture notes, and other papers from Dean Boelter’s files. A catalog of the Llewellyn M. K. Boelter Collection has been prepared; a copy is available by sending a request to Helen Q. Schroyer, Archives Assistant, Purdue Uni­ versity Libraries, Lafayette, IN 47907. • On his retirement in June 1970, after twenty-two years of teaching Spanish literature at Kansas University, Professor Domingo Ricart presented to the U niversity of Kansas li­ braries a collection of some five hundred books. These were largely concerned with Catalan language and literature, a subject with which Professor Ricart was intimately associat­ ed. Among the antiquarian items of note are the 1546 Lyons edition of Adversos omnes Haereses by Alfonso de Castro, Obras de don Francisco de Quevedo, Brussels 1660, and a copy of Michael Verino’s Modo para vivir etemamente … , published in Madrid in 1710. However, the bulk of the collection consists of nine­ teenth- and twentieth-century imprints, and in­ cludes works of such important figures as Ra­ mon Llull, thirteenth-century philosopher, mor­ alist, and poet; Joanot Martorell, fifteenth cen­ tury, author of Tirant Lo Blanc, a famous novel of chivalry; Ausias March, fifteenth cen­ tury, greatest Catalan poet, influenced by Dan­ te and Petrarch; Jacint Verdaguer (1845- 1902) and Joan Maragall (1860-1911), poets, major figures of the nineteenth-century renais­ sance; and Josep Pla (1895– ), probably the most important contemporary prose writer. • The personal library of the late Howard M. Lebow has been given to the University of Massachusetts through the generosity of his mother, Mrs. Carlton Lebow of West New York, New Jersey. Lebow was an assistant pro­ fessor of music at the University of Massachu­ setts in Amherst when his outstanding career as a concert pianist was ended by a fatal auto­ mobile accident in January of 1968. The col­ lection, numbering over 5,000 items, is pri­ marily of keyboard music and includes many unusual early editions, a reflection of Lebow’s taste and discrimination as a musician and en­ thusiastic collector. The collection will be es­ tablished as the Howard Lebow Memorial Col­ lection in the new Fine and Performing Arts Center, currently under construction a t the university. • Some 2,500 autograph letters and manu­ scripts and over 750 books relating to the Ros­ setti family ( particularly poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti) and the Pre-Raphael­ ite circle, representing the literary holdings of what has been termed “the outstanding pri­ vate Pre-Raphaelite collection,” are now avail­ able to scholars in the Princeton University library. The collection has been purchased from Mrs. Janet Camp Troxell, of New Haven, Connecticut, considered one of the leading contemporary authorities on the Rossettis. This notable acquisition has been made possible by six major benefactors of the library: three members of the Council of the Friends of The Princeton University Library together with the Eberhard L. Faber Foundation; the John E. Annan Fund of the University’s Department of English; and the late Christian A. Zabriskie of New York City. The three members of the Li­ brary Friends, well-known collectors who over The United States His by special arrangement and the A cting Superintend CHEC U .S. PUBLIC 1789-1970 tor with ent K ON MICROFILM 1,200,000 shelf list cards on 16mm microfilm (roll or cartridge); arranged in SuDocs classification order by some 3000 government authors; and current as of October 1970. The active file contains approximately 550,000 cards describing publications of existing govern­ ment authors and continuous series. The inactive file contains 650,000 cards describing publications in discontinued series and items published by government authors that are no longer active. Also, both files contain about 50,000 guide cards which indicate changes of titles and identify predecessor and successor organizations. SEPARATE SUBSETS OFFERED FOR MAJOR GOVERNMENT AUTHORS Department level author breakouts are available separately upon request. For example, you may order individual microfilm reels covering the shelf lists of publications of the Department of Agricul­ ture, Interior Department, Health, Education and Welfare. Please write for price information. L ” A n im p res sive … d u a l m e d ia col­ lection … [a ] m o n u m e n ta l w o r k .” Joe M o re h e a d , RQ , S pring 1971 UPDATES THE 1909 CHECKLIST AND OTHER BASIC REFERENCE TOOLS USED BY DOCUMENTS LIBRARIANS Here’s how the two standard reference books on U.S. Government documents evaluate the Public Docu­ ments Library, its collection, the SuDocs Classifica­ tion scheme, and the need for updating the predeces­ sors of Checklist ’70. Government Publications and Their Use, L. F. Schmeckebier and R. B. Eastin, 2nd Revised Edi­ tion, Brookings Institute, 1969. “There is probably no complete collection of govern­ ment publications in existence, but the one in the Public Documents Library is probably the most nearly complete … it has all issues listed in the Monthly Catalog and the biennial Documents Catalog. It also has some material not so listed, as back issues are often sent to the library after the catalogs are printed.” United States Government Publications, A. M. Boyd and R. E. Rips, 3rd Revised Edition, Wilson, 1953. “The Library of the Office of Superintendent of Docu­ ments is of interest to librarians … because of the classification scheme by which its collection is ar­ ranged. It has been adopted by many other libraries throughout the country as a most convenient and satis­ factory method of organizing and arranging collec­ tions of government publications. “There have been three checklists of government pub­ lications… The third, which was much more inclu­ sive and a monumental work of incalculable value covering the entire period of United States publica­ tions to 1909 … was published in 1911. “A fourth edition, bringing the third edition to date, is the aid to government publications most needed by librarians.” CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENTS WILL UPDATE THE COLLECTION Thanks to GPO’s full cooperation, we are also able to offer subscriptions to a service which will update the shelf lists semiannually in dual-media cumulative supplements. The mi­ crofilm portion will include all new entries added to the shelf lists after the 1970 cut-off date. They will be filmed in SuDocs Classifi­ cation order, and the accumulated files issued semiannually until such a time as the entire shelf lists will be re-filmed in one sequence. The four indexes will be issued in paperback supplements and accumulated along with the card files. ical Documents Institute the U. S. Public Printer o f Documents announces the I ST OF DOCUMENTS … a dual media collection of the Active and Inactive shelf the Superintendent of Documents’, Public Documents Library, Washington, D. C. IN BOUND VOLUMES Four full-size, hard cover computer-based indexes compiled by Daniel and Marilyn Lester. Mr. and Mrs. Lester are the Associate Director for Systems and Automation, and Technician, Government Publications Division, at the Library of Mankato State College in Minnesota. Index One — arranged by author in SuDocs class order showing microfilm reel numbers (in es­ sence, a detailed Table of Contents for the Mi­ crofilm Segments). Index Two — arranged in a single alphabet format by some 3000 individual government authors (both active and inactive). This index brings together all SDC numbers for any government Author, regardless of its reorganization history. Index T hree — an alphabetical listing of cabi­ net level departments and major agencies sub­ divided by their individual publishing offices listed alphabetically. Index F our — an alphabetical listing of some 18,000 U. S. Government series titles giving SDC Class numbers and microfilm reel numbers. This list will be enlarged with full descriptive data for each series in the Lesters’ forthcoming Bibliography of U.S. Government Serial Publi­ cations, 1789-1970. Note: All index entries show SDC and microfilm reel numbers. “The most comprehensive single source of published information on U.S. Government Docu­ ments.” Carper W. Buckley U.S. Superintendent of Documents 1953-1970 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Now available to librarians for the first time in any format. As stated by Carper W. Buckley, who until his retirement in 1970 had served as U.S. Superin­ tendent of Documents since 1953. “Checklist ’70 provides librarians with the most com­ prehensive single source of published information about United States Government documents. It lists all titles which appear in the shelf lists of the Public Documents Library of the U.S. Government Printing Office, covering the period 1861 through October 1970. Also included are the publications listed in the Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, the Monthly Catalog and Mary Elizabeth Poole’s Docu­ ments Office Classification to 1966.” In addition to containing bibliographic citations and SuDocs Classification numbers for the publications mentioned above, Checklist ’70 also contains refer­ ences to thousands of publications which held security classifications when originally published and therefore did not appear in any lists or bibliographies. Most of these which were later declassified and added to the Public Documents Library’s shelf lists were never picked up retrospectively in the standard bibliographic reference tools. Each citation is at least as complete as the entries in the Monthly Catalog and often provides more infor­ mation. For instance, bibliographic data on each issue of certain periodicals are included, as well as com­ plete cross-references for changes in classification numbers, titles, or issuing agencies. Cutterized sepa­ rates are listed for some series publications. N o w A v a ila b le in 16 and 35m m . 282 the years have helped strengthen the resources of the Princeton library, are Robert H. Taylor (Princeton 1930), a resident of Princeton, chairman of the Friends; Levering Cartwright (Princeton 1926) of Chicago, Illinois; and Daniel Maggin of New York City. The Rossetti Collection of Janet Camp Trox­ ell features letters from and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; many of his autograph manuscripts; manuscripts of two biographies about him by Sir Hall Caine and by Henry Treffry Dunn; copies of virtually every important edition of his poems; manuscripts by and letters from Christina Rossetti; and letters to and from William Rossetti. Also included are numerous letters from a n d /o r to Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Coventry Patmore, W il­ liam Bell Scott, Algernon Charles Swinburne, the bookselling firm of F. S. Ellis, Jane Mor­ ris, Robert Browning, and others related to Pre-Raphaelitism. Rossetti’s art work is not in­ cluded. GRANTS • New research is starting in Loughborough University of T echnology, Loughborough, England on speeding u p the way scientists can find information about their subjects. The Of­ fice for Scientific and Technical Information has made a grant to the university of £39,319, spread over three years, to investigate the automated retrieval of information. The proj­ ect involves experimentation with the merging of information, particularly that covering sev­ eral subjects, using magnetic tapes, computer programs, and a wide variety of information sources. Developments could be very rapid availability of up-to-date statements of knowl­ edge in a particular subject, as well as the pos­ sibility of delving deeply but quickly into past records. One of the models to be used is the suc­ cessful Particle Science and Technology In ­ formation Service run by the Chemical E n ­ gineering Department of the university, estab­ lished in the last two years, which now feeds information to subscribers at home and abroad. The project will experiment on how computer programs can extend the flow of information to the service from such areas as the medical and industrial fields. F urther work will also continue on the automation of library adminis­ trative processes. The project will be led by Dr. A. J. Evans, university librarian and president of the In ­ ternational Association of Technological Uni­ versity Libraries. The research team will in­ clude both computer and information scientists. • The Ohio College Library Center, located at Ohio State University, has received a grant of $125,000 to continue developing a computerized regional library system. The grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare covers an eighteen- month period. Three services are to be sup­ ported by the grant: the system for loaning books, a regional catalog system of journals and other periodicals, and a record system of the progress of new acquisitions through the cataloging system. The regional system will also be available through telephone line to users from the Co­ operative College Library Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The OCLC will catalog the Atlanta center’s listings for eighteen black colleges. • The University of T exas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas will study the feasi­ bility of centralized book processing involving the medical components of the UT system. Dr. Donald Hendricks, UTS Medical School library director, said a $27,368 grant from the National Library of Medicine would enable researchers to study purchasing, cataloging, and processing of books in a cooperative ven­ ture. The library at UTS Medical School, with approximately 100,000 volumes, and the other existing or developing collections in the sys­ tem will be used as a basis for a mathematical model which will test the proposal’s potential. Graduate students from the UT Library School at Austin will participate in the research. • The University of Kansas libraries have received a grant of $10,000 from the D epart­ ment of Health, Education and Welfare from funds appropriated under the Higher E duca­ tion Act of 1965, Title II, Part A (P.L. 89-329, as am ended), Special Purpose Type B. This mouth-filling, eye-bewildering officialese ex­ presses the government’s way of helping bolster college and university library holdings in stra­ tegic areas. The funds will be used at KU to buy library materials to support programs of current interest to the Office of Education, in­ cluding African Studies, with an emphasis on recent Afro-American history. MEETINGS Oct. 6-9: The Pennsylvania Library Associ­ ation will meet a t the Marriott Motor Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Speakers include Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp, author Elizabeth Janeway, and Dr. Lawrence A. Allen, College of Library Science, University of Kentucky. Sessions are concerned with all library con­ sumers’ needs. Academic librarians will discuss the results of their Task Force sessions on Academic Status in addition to an “Action Planning” session with Dr. Allen. Trustees will 283 A wholly new encyclopedia, unlike any other you may now have. And, unlike any other specialized encyclopedia, this one belongs in the general reference collection of all libraries Encyclopaedia Judaica W ith the publication of this major new work, a whole world of insights with application to all current concerns on all subjects, has been opened. No research on human affairs can now be considered corñplete that does not take these insights into account. A new source of essential information Judaica places before us all important facts about the past 5000 years of people, places, concepts, things and events, from the per­ spective of the world’s only ancient civiliza­ tion vitally extant. For the fact is no people has had and continues to have a more pro­ found influence on all human thought and activity than the Jews. Judaica makes available to all, for the first time in a single source, hundreds of thou­ sands of facts on a ”new” side of history that serves to illuminate all of today’s major issues and interests. A new way of looking at today From Judaica, we discover a new way to look at topical concerns such as the Arabs and the Israelis, emerging nations, urbanization. Minority problems and racial tensions; inte­ gration, segregation, apartheid. Civil Rights. W omen. Labor relations. In terfaith m ar­ riage, adoption, abortion, sex. Judaica offers many new or little known facts on familiar subjects as far-ranging as Family Living and Philosophy and Russia and Demographic Shifts. A new way of looking at the past Judaica is a treasury of information on Bibli­ cal history and on our common Judeo- Christian heritage, rewritten in the light of the great archaeological and other scientific findings of the past few decades. The entries in this subject field are outstanding. Useful at many levels of research Judaica is scholarly, objective, authoritative; the definitive work in its field. Nonetheless, it manages to be completely fascinating, easy to read, and easy to use. All libraries will find it a valuable acquisition. There are numerous reader aids, including: an Index Volume con­ taining 250,000 entries; copious cross refer­ ences; selective bibliographies; thousands of illustrations; and others. Many of the special articles are book length; the classic pieces among them will be referred to constantly over the years. Please send for free brochure To obtain your copy of the brochure which lists Judaica’s distinguished editors and fully explains Judaica’s contents, please write to the address given below. 15 VOLUMES, handsomely bound. 11,000 pages, 11,000,000 words. Generously illustrated in black and white and in full color. Ready, Fall 1971. T H E M ACMILLAN COMPANY Dept. LNY, Riverside, N.J. 08075 A CCM Company 284 ” This series provides invaluable source material for the p olitica l history of America in our time… If only we had a com parable series from the 19th century with Jackson, Webster, Clay and Calhoun facing the nation!” — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. FACE T T he Coll H ected Tr E anscrip ts N from the A CBS Ne T ws Broa I dc O asts — N 1954 1970 An In-Depth Primary Reference Source on Contemporary Affairs Since its inaugural broadcast in 1954, FACE THE NATION has explored the signficant events and personalities of a dynam ic era. Through interviews with hundreds of national and world leaders of the Fifties and Sixties, the broadcasts provide an in-depth picture of our time and its vital issues. The nearly 700 FACE THE NATION transcripts offer a unique and rich primary reference source for students, historians, researchers, political scientists and general readers. Their pub­ lication marks the first time the content of a TV news series has been transformed into a reference work. Prepared by Holt Information Systems in Your Library’s Choice of Reference Media In conjunction with CBS News, Holt Information Systems, the new reference publishing division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, is publishing the complete file of FACE THE NATION transcripts in a 14- volume reference work. For fast and efficient reference use, all transcripts have been carefully indexed by name, subject and issue in a separate index volume. Annual indexed editions w ill be published beginning with the 1971 edition. In addition, many individual broadcasts are available on audio tape, video tape and 16mm B&W film. Beginning with 1972 broadcasts, transcripts will be available on microfiche. Prices and Ordering Information Complete 14-volume set including index, covering FACE THE NATION broadcasts, 1 9 5 4 -1 9 7 0 -$ 3 9 5 . Annual indexed editions (beginning with 1971 edition) — $35. Orders should be addressed to: Holt Information Systems, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. Send no money with order. We will bill you. GUARANTEE: You may order with the assurance that FACE THE NATION Tran­ scripts are returnable for a full refund if you are dissatisfied for any reason. 285 have an in-service training day during the conference and both ends of the spectrum of public relations will be pursued at another session. The final session is entitled “Should the Public Library Be Saved?” Oct. 7-9: The South Carolina Library As­ sociation will hold its 1971 convention in Co­ lumbia, October 7-9, at the Sheraton-Columbia Inn. Oct. 22-23: The fourth annual institute pre­ sented by LIPC (Library Institutes Planning Committee) and cosponsored by the Tech­ nical Services Division and the College, Uni­ versity, and Research Libraries Division of the California Library Association and the North­ ern California Technical Processes Group. It will be held Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23, 1971, at San Leandro Community Cen­ ter, San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro, California. The June issue of the CRL News carries further details. Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library As­ sociation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel. Oct. 24-27: The Division of University Ex­ tension and the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois has an­ nounced the Seventeenth Annual Allerton In­ stitute: Libraries and Neighborhood Informa­ tion Centers, to be held October 24-27, 1971, at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois. Partici­ pation is open, but is limited to ninety regis­ trants. Registrations will be accepted on a first- come, first-served basis. For further information write to Graduate School of Library Science, Division of Ex­ tension, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, Illinois 61820, and consult the June News. Oct. 28-30: The Georgia Library Associa­ tion will meet at The Aquarama, Jekyll Is­ land, Georgia. Further information can be ob­ tained from David E. Estes, President, Georgia Library Association, Robert W. Woodruff Li­ brary, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Nov. 7-11: The 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) will be held November 7-11, 1971, at the Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Jack M. McCormick (Chief, Special Man­ agement Services, National Oceanic & Atmo­ spheric Administration), General Chairman for the 1971 ASIS Conference, has announced that the theme of the conference will be “Com­ munication for Decision-Makers.” Further information on the ASIS Annual Meeting may be obtained by contacting Miss Sheryl Wormley, ASIS, 1140 Connecticut Av­ enue, N.W., Suite 804, Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: (202 ) 659-3644. Further information can be found in the September 1971 News, Meetings section. Nov. 11-13: “Directions in Education in Information Science,” a symposium cospon­ sored by the Information Science and Automa­ tion Division of the American Library Associa­ tion, the American Society for Information Sci­ ence, and the University of Denver Graduate School of Library Science, will be held on November 11-13, 1971, immediately follow­ ing the ASIS annual meeting in Denver. Curricula and curriculum development will be the focus of the discussions, which will bring together educators in library science, in­ formation science, and computer science. At­ tendance will be limited. The registration fee is $35.00 for the two and one-half-day sym­ posium. Inquiries and application should be made to Mr. Don S. Culbertson, Executive Secretary, Information Science and Automation Division, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Illinois 60611. Nov. 15: The General Services Administra­ tion will offer their Ninth Archival Symposia Monday, November 15, at the University of Chicago, School of Law. The general topic will be “Research Use of Federal Court Rec­ ords; What, Where and How?” Topics and speakers will include “The Origin, Develop­ ment and Operation of the Federal Courts Records Program of NARS,” by Mrs. Dorothy Gersack, Records Appraisal Division, NARS, Washington, D.C.; “Research Opportunities at the Region 5 Archives Branch,” by Bruce C. Harding, Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Rec­ ords Center, Chicago; “Locating, Selecting, and Reproducing Federal Court Records on Microfilm,” with Irwin S. Rhodes, Attorney and Legal Historian, Cincinnati; and “Research­ ing and Writing on Federal Courts in Ken­ tucky,” by Mary K. Tachau, Department of History, University of Louisville. Comments on the program and the future of legal history will be offered by Dr. Stanley Katz, University of Chicago, School of Law. For further information contact Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Record Center, GSA-NARS, 7201 S. Leamington Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60638. (Tele.: 312-353-5720) PUBLICATIONS • Libraries, subscriptions agencies, and other organizations concerned with information han­ dl; 286 dling will benefit from the new American Na­ tional Standard Identification Number for Seri­ al Publications, Z39.9-1971. The new standard, just published by ANSI, sets up a concise, unique, and unambiguous code for identify­ ing serials—periodicals, newspapers, reports, yearbooks, journals, proceedings, transactions, etc. The standard specifies th at one eight-digit code number be assigned permanently to each serial. It also recognizes th at the assignment of code numbers should be administered by a central authority. The Library of Congress has agreed to undertake this responsibility, subject to the availability of the necessary funds. American National Standard Z39.9-1971 de­ fines a serial, specifies the code’s format and characteristics, and stipulates how it should be applied. It is available from ANSI at $2.25 per copy. • The Black Experience in the United States, a bibliography published by the San Fernando Valley State College Foundation, has been recommended to college libraries in the spring 1971 issue of College Library Notes for the College President. The book, compiled by Dennis C. Bakewell, social sciences bibliographer in the San Fer­ nando Valley State College Library, is one of eleven titles suggested as book selection tools for libraries interested in building black studies collections in an article, “Establishing Black Collections for Black Studies,” by Ann Allen Shockley, associate librarian at Fisk Univer­ sity. The Black Experience in the United States, which began as a project by the library as a service to the students and faculty of San Fernando Valley State College, grew to the point where it was felt th at we should not limit its distribution to San Fernando Valley State College. Consequently, we are making it avail­ able to others. It contains approximately 3,175 entries; ar­ rangement is by subject ( Library of Congress classification); author index; price is $12.00; printed by Anderson, Ritchie, and Simon (The W ard Ritchie Press); distributed by Richard Abel & Company, 1506 Gardena St., Glendale, California 91204; LC 74-136287. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently published mon­ ograph no.11, Education for Librarianship: The Design of the Curriculum of Library Schools. This volume, edited and introduced by Her­ bert Goldhor, Director, Graduate School of Li­ brary Science, University of Illinois, results from the university’s fourth conference on ed­ ucation for librarianship which was held in the fall of 1970. The formulation of a curriculum for a pro­ fessional school with preparation for changes of the future is a difficult problem. Several of the papers in this volume give help to those who face this general problem; the balance of the papers deal with the curriculum for specific areas of library education. Contributors are from all areas of library education and are of varying ages. This 195-page indexed volume is available from the Illini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St., Champaign, Illinois 61820, at a cost of $4.00 (hardback only). Back issues of the monograph series may be ordered and standing orders placed through the above address. LC: 78-633332 (volume); ISBN: 0-87845-033-5. • A new film titled, The Library of the Future, and recently previewed at the Amer­ ican Library Association convention in Dallas, is now available on free loan from the Rem­ ington Rand Library Bureau Division of Sperry Rand Corporation. The 16mm color film in­ cludes a soundtrack and runs ten minutes. This interesting film touches on some com­ mon problems in today’s library and how, through the use of new systems, these prob­ lems can readily be solved. The four systems featured are a book-theft detection system, a system for conserving valuable library floor space, an automatic book-retrieval system, and a unique system for storing and retrieving microfilmed reference material. For more information about the film and where a copy may be obtained, write to Rem­ ington Rand Library Bureau Division, 801 Park Ave., Herkimer, New York 13350, or con­ tact the nearest Remington Rand Library Bu­ reau office. • The Long Room, the Bulletin of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, has resumed publication. The first series of the Bulletin appeared yearly between 1946 and 1958. Published in the spring and autumn, the Bulletin is available from the li­ brary at an annual subscription rate of one pound per year. • Twin City area daily newspapers are now being indexed as a result of a study on news­ paper indexing in Minnesota. The study was made possible by LSCA grand funds via the MEtropolitan Library Service Agency (M E L­ SA). The Minneapolis Public Library is indexing the Star and Tribune and the St. Paul Public Library the Dispatch and Pioneer Press. Both of the indexes are distributed monthly with cumulations twice a year. Samples and sub­ 288 scription rates may be obtained on request from these libraries. • The National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Watson Boston Spa, York­ shire, England, has begun publishing the N L L Review. The periodical will contain informa­ tion about the NLL’s activities and the ideas behind them. It is intended to be of value both to those who are relying increasingly on the NLL’s services and to those who are con­ sidering whether similar services should be created elsewhere. The Review is published quarterly by H. M. Stationery Office, price 50p (n et) per issue, annual subscription £2.18. It can be obtained from Government Book­ shops or ordered through booksellers. • The 1971 edition of the UCLA Biomedical Library Serials Holdings List has been pub­ lished and is now available at a cost of $4.50. The SH L is a computer-generated list con­ taining the complete holdings of the over 12,000 journals in the collection of the Bio­ medical Library. The price includes charges for postage and sales tax. Orders, accompanied by checks made payable to the Regents of the University of California, should be sent to Serials Holdings List, Biomedical Library, Cen­ ter for the Health Sciences, University of Cali­ fornia, Los Angeles, California 90024. • The Union List of Scientific and Tech­ nical Serials in the University of Michigan Library, 6th edition, is now available. I t in­ cludes more than 24,000 titles drawn from the holdings of twenty-four of the libraries in the University of Michigan library system. Each title entry gives the official main entry, li­ brary location, holdings, and call number. Some 6,700 cross-references have also been provided to assist users. All new entries and corrections submitted to the editorial staff through March 15, 1971, have been included. The sixth edition may be purchased for $10.00 from Current Expense Section, Administrative Services D e­ partment, University Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. ■■ Personnel Mr. Cunningham’s varied background and his proven concern for the problems of mi­ norities in America should be of great value in the unique and challenging setting which is Howard University. APPOINTMENTS Joseph D. Baker is now librarian of the undergraduate library at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Ludmila Barson has joined the staff of Bowling Green State University library, Bowl­ ing Green, Ohio, as interlibrary loan librarian. Russell H. Benedict is the newly appoint­ ed head of the catalog division of the Indiana State University library, Terre Haute. Carson Bennett is now head of reference at Bowling Green State University library, Bowling Green, Ohio. Mrs. Fay M. Blake has accepted an ap­ pointment to the faculty of the School of Li­ brarianship and the University of California, Berkeley. Barbara Brown is the newly appointed head reference librarian and public services li­ brarian at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Judith Cherry has accepted an appoint­ ment with the Capitol Campus of Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, as a reference librarian. Helen S. Clark is now head of the serials PROFILE In an appointment effective April 1 of this year, Howard University, Washington, D.C., appointed W illiam D ean Cunningham to succeed the retiring Joseph Reason as director of libraries. Mr. Cunningham has held positions of increasing responsibility in a wide variety of library and library related fields. Following receipt of his Master of Library Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1963, he held positions as chief of library service at the Federal Aviation Agen­ cy, Kansas City, Missouri, from 1965 to 1967, director of adult services at the Topeka, Kansas Public Library from 1967 through 1968. From 1968 until his acceptance of the appointment at Howard University, he held the position of library services program officer in the United States Office of Education in Kansas City, Mis­ souri. His professional and publishing activities re­ flect his continuing concern with the problems of minorities in America in general and in the library field in particular. He has served on the Advisory Committee for the ALA Office for Recruitment, the Advisory Committee for Black Economic Union’s Library Project, and the Advisory Committee for the Library Project of the Institute of Community Studies. His latest publications include a contribution to The Black Librarian in America published this year and an article in the October issue of Library Trends.