ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


F ebru ary 1983 /  55

PUBLICATIONS
NO TIC ES

•Can I C opy...?, by Howard R. Lurie (26 pages. 
1982), is a practical guide to reproduction rights 
under the copyright law for university and college 
faculty and staff. The booklet provides a brief over­
view of copyright protection, discusses briefly the 
fair use provision and the guidelines for classroom 
copying, and answers 29 practical questions about 
rights and infringement. Copies may be ordered 
for $2 prepaid (discounts are available for 2 or 
more) from Villanova University Press. Villanova. 
PA 19085.

•T he H orace Mann B on d Papers: A Guide, by 
Barbara S. Meloni, Rita Norton, and Katherine 
Emerson (1982), describes the contents of the Bond 
Collection at the University of Massachusetts. 
Bond (1904-1972) was a president of Lincoln Uni­
versity who conducted extensive research on the 
factors affecting intelligence, intellectual achieve­
ment. and testing, and was deeply involved in rela­
tions with various African countries. The G u id e is 
available to scholars and libraries by request to Ar­
chives and Manuscripts. Library. University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst. MA 01003.

•The 1982 edition of the Missouri Union List o f  
Serial Publications has been published in micro­
fiche format by the St. Louis Public Library. The 
new edition includes 4 2 .500 titles and 135.000 
holdings statements of periodicals, newspapers, 
and serial publications located in 99 public, aca­
demic. and special libraries throughout Missouri 
and parts of Illinois and Kansas. Copies are avail­
able for $50 (or $25 for libraries that participated in 
the project) from the Business Office, St. Louis 
Public Library, 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO 
63103.

•N ative Am erican Press in Wisconsin an d  the N a­
tion. edited by James P. Danky. Maureen E. Hady, 
and Richard Joseph Morris (Summer 1982. 198 
pages), consists of the published proceedings of the 
Conference on the Native American Press held in 
Madison on April 2 2 -2 3 . 1982, and sponsored by 
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Uni­
versity of Wisconsin-Madison Library School, and 
the UW-M School of Journalism and Mass Com­
munication. Fourteen papers describe the history 
and current status of Native American journalism 
with a particular emphasis on Wisconsin. Copies 
may be ordered for $6.50 each (plus 4th class post­
age at 1.5 pounds) from the Publications Commit­
tee, Library School of Wisconsin, 600 N. Park

Street. Madison, WT 53706.
•The P roceedin gs o f  the S econ d  Intern ation al 

C onferen ce on G eological Inform ation (1982) has 
been published by the Oklahoma Geological Sur­
vey as their Special Publication no. 82-4. Geosci­
ence information specialists from 16 countries met 
May 2 3 -2 8 ,1 9 8 2 . at the Colorado School of Mines. 
Golden, C olorado, to discuss inform ation ex­
change, collection development in earth science li­
braries, and the future of scientific publishing. The 
volume may be ordered for $10 from C.M . Kidd. 
Geology Library. University of Oklahoma. 830 
Van Fleet Oval. Norman, OK 73019.

•Standard Citation Form s f o r  Published B ibliog­
ra p h iesa n d  Catalogs Used in Rare B ook Cataloging. 
by Peter V anW ingen and Stephen Paul Davis 
(1982. 113 pages), establishes citation forms for 400 
bibliographies that are helpful in verifying, identi­
fying. and describing rare books. The recom ­
mended citation forms follow a simple formula 
which catalogers can by extension apply to items 
not listed. The ACRL Rare Book and Manuscripts 
Section’s Standards Committee oversaw the prepa­
ration of this edition, which is based on one pre­
pared in 1979 for the Independent Research Li­
braries Association. Copies are available for $10 
from the Library of Congress. Cataloging Distri­
bution Service. Washington. DC 20541.

• T ec h n ic a l S ervices Cost S tudies in A RL L i­
braries. SPEC Kit #89 (November-December 1982. 
104 pages) contains four examples of top-down cost 
studies, three examples of bottom-up studies, and a 
summary of the April 1982 SPEC survey. Single 
copies may be purchased for $15. with checks made 
payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies, 
from the SPEC  Center. ARL/OM S. 1527 New 
Hampshire Ave.. N .W .. Washington. DC 20036.

•The July 1982 University o f  California L ibrary 
Statistics (11 pages), w hich compares the collection 
size, acquisitions, interlibrary transactions, and ex­
penditures of the ten libraries in the UC system, is 
available from the O ffice of the Assistant Vice 
President— Library Plans and Policies. University 
of California. Berkeley. CA 94720. ■ ■



o r the womens 
stu dies 
collection

INTERNATIONAL 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 
WOMEN COMPOSERS
By Aaron I. Cohen. In this outstanding 
w ork are all the known biographical and 

WOMEN RELIGIOUS musical details of 3,700 women com ­
HISTORY SOURCES posers, representing 70 countries, and 
A G u id e to R epositories s p a n n in g  a tim e  p e rio d  b e g in n in g  
in the United States 2563-2423 B.C. Arranged alphabetical­
Edited by Sister Evangeline Thomas, ly by surname, each biographical entry 
with the assistance of Joyce L. W hite p ro vid e s th e  c o m p o s e r’s name, and 
and Lois Wachtel. This is a guide to the where available, nationality, music spe­
archival and m anuscript repositories of cialization, place and date of birth and 
Catholic, Episcopal, and O rthodox sis­ death along with a brief synopsis of the 
terhoods and Lutheran, M ennonite, and com poser's musical career. A list of all 
M ethodist deaconesses. Entries are ar­ known com posed w orks is given, along 
ranged alphabetically by state with su b ­ with a list of both books and articles 
listings by city and c o n g re g a tio n /c o m ­ a bout and by the composer.
m unity name. Each of the 570 entries ISBN 0-8352-1288-2. 1981.
includes the name and address o f the 597 pp. $145.00.
religious archive and general inform a­
tion concerning size, dates, and history THE FEMALE HERO
of the community, with a description of In A m erican and British Literature
its holdings. Also included are a b ib lio g ­ By Carol Pearson and Katherine Pope. 
raphy, ta b le  o f fo u n d in g  d a te s, b io ­ T h is a rtic u la te  s tu d y  o f the c o m p le x  
graphical register of foundresses and patterns of fem ale heroism in American 
major superiors, and index. and British literature traces the stages 
ISBN 0-8352-1681-0. March 1983. of the female heroic journey from  the 
Approx. 320 pp. $65.00 tent. Anglo-Saxon period to the present. The 

authors have collected im portant w orks 
W OMEN’S HISTORY emphasizing those elem ents in the fe­
SOURCES male quest that differ from her male 
A G u ide to Archives and M anuscript counterparts. This is a thoug h t-p ro vo k­
Collections in th e United States ing co n trib u tio n  to literary theory, to 
Edited b y  A n d re a  H inding inassociation know ledge of sex role patterns, and to 
with the University of Minnesota. Hailed the psychological life journeys of co n ­
by the New York Times as "th e  most tem porary women.
im portant recent event in w om en’s his­ ISBN 0-8352-1466-4. 1981. 314 pp. 
tory archives,” this w ork is divided into $12.95 paperback. $24.95 hardcover.
tw o  v o lu m e s . V olum e I: C o lle c tio n s  
identifies and describes 18,026 c o lle c ­ Prices are ap plicable in the U.S. and Canada; 
tions of unpublished historical m aterials 10% high er in other Western H em isphere co u n ­
pertaining to women contained in 1,586 tries. All invoices are payable in U.S. dollars. 

A pplicable sales tax must be included. S hipping 
repositories nationwide. Entries are ar­ and handling w ill be added.
ranged alphabetically by state, city, then 
by institution, repository, and collection. 
Volume II: Index provides name, sub­
ject, and geographic access to the ar­

R.R.Bowker 
chives and m anuscript co llections de­ Company
scribed in the main volume. O rder Dept., P.O. Box 1807,
ISBN 0-8352-1103-7. 1979. Ann Arbor, Ml 48106
1,516 pp. $175.00 (set).

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