ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 328 News from the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s recently has ac­ quired from the Centro Nacional de Microfilm in Madrid positive microfilms of the Madrid, Spain, newspaper El Socialista for the period March 12, 1886—March 28, 1939. The com­ plete microfilm holdings consist of fifty-seven reels of positive film, which will be available in the library’s newspaper and current period­ ical reading room. El Socialista was founded as a weekly in Madrid on March 12, 1886, only seven years after the creation of the party itself and two years before the socialist trade union organiza­ tion, Union General de Trabajadores (U G T ), was established. El Socialista always played a pivotal role in the Spanish Socialist movement. Its editor for most of the period until 1920 was Pablo Iglesias of the Spanish Socialist Party. All of the other prominent men of early social­ ism also had active parts as editors including Jaime Vera, Garciá Quejdo, and Gómez Latorre. After the turn of the century, it also began re­ ceiving contributions from such distinguished intellectuals as Clariñ (Leopoldo Alas), Miguel de Unamuno, and José Ortega y Gasset. In 1913, as Spanish Socialism grew into a mass movement, El Socialista was converted into a daily and served as the focal point for the widespread and variegated socialist regional press that arose. As factionalism began to af­ fect the movement after the First World War, and especially after the establishment of the Second Republic in 1931, control of El Socialis­ ta became a major source of conflict between radicals and reformists. The latter managed to retain control, however, even during the crisis period of 1935-36, when Large Caballero and Indalecio Prieto struggled for hegemony. Pub­ lication of El Socialista in Madrid ceased with the fall of the city to the forces of General Franco on March 29, 1939. Acquisitions of the complete microfilm hold­ ings of El Socialista was recommended by a group of United States historians specializing in modern Spanish history. • The personal, day-to-day thoughts of Laura Benét, poet, novelist, and biographer, who also happens to be the sister of Stephen Vincent Benét and William Rose Benét, come to life in a group of diaries in the B r o o k l y n C o l l e g e Manuscripts Collection. Housed in the Brooklyn College Library, the diaries provide a glimpse into the life of a writ­ er who has written more than twenty books of poetry and fiction and biographies of such fig­ ures as Thackeray, Coleridge, Stanley the explorer, and Emily Dickinson. H er latest book, published this year, is a memoir of childhood, W hen William Rose, Stephen Vincent and, I Were Young. Both Miss Benét and William Rose were born in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, as p art of a military family, Stephen Vincent coming along later when their father was transferred to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Both her brothers had distinguished writing careers as poets and novelists, William Rose winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1941 and Stephen Vincent winning in 1929. After graduating from Vassar, Miss Benét worked as a social worker and as a newspaper reporter before family tradition prevailed and she began to devote herself to her own work. Her first book of poetry, Noah’s Dove, was pub­ lished in 1929. The diaries in the Brooklyn College collec­ tion cover the years 1944-55 and contain such typical entries as comments on the weather, opinions of books and plays, and remarks on im­ portant news of the day. She also records, espe­ cially in the early diaries, royalty payments and daily expenses and notes the passing on of friends and famous figures. • Like today’s professionals, Haydn, Verdi, Lincoln, and Longfellow used calling cards, too. They date back more than 200 years. A collection of 650 of the small printed cards, most signed by their famous presenters, has been given to C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y and is on display there. Among them are some of the world’s best-known personalities—presi­ dents, first ladies, and celebrities in music, lit­ erature, and politics, including the four nota­ bles above. It is the gift of Frederick C. Schang, retired president and chairman of Columbia Artists Management and a 1915 graduate of Colum­ bia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Most of the cards either are autographed or contain handwritten notes. Among notable items in the collection are cards of Puccini, Berlioz, Wagner, Tschaikovsky, Chopin, Goethe, Twain, Joyce, Freud, Edison, Einstein, De Gaulle, and Jenny Lind. The presidential cards begin with that of Thomas Jefferson; the most recent is that of Gerald Ford before he became president. Cards of first ladies begin with Martha Washington and end with an autographed card of Rosalynn Carter. On one of Verdi’s cards, he signs himself “Le Grand Falstaff.” Puccini scrawled a bar from “La Boheme” on one of his cards in the collec­ tion; and Freud, in 1907, wrote on the back of 329 one of his cards that a certain law student “needs psychotherapy badly, even w ithout spe­ cial sym ptom s.” Schang notes th a t cards are a relatively re­ cent social phenom enon th a t flourished begin­ ning in th e early 18th century. T heir use until early this century was regulated by strict and frequently complex rales. At one time, he states, it was required th at a woman caller leave one card for each mem ber of h er sex in th e family visited; if th e visitor was married, she left the same num ber of h er husband’s cards. Folding a corner of a card had precise sig­ nificance, according to Schang. Folding the upper right-hand corner denoted a social call; upper left-hand, congratulations; lower right- hand, goodbye; and low er left-hand, con­ dolence. The collection is an ongoing one, Schang said. Every year, he adds cards he has collect­ ed in the previous tw elve months. For 1978, he has already acquired cards of Aaron B urr and Noah W ebster. G R A N T S • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f R o c h e s t e r has been aw arded a $333,000 challenge grant from the N ational E ndow m ent for the Humanities (N E H ) for the purchase of books and m anu­ scripts in th e humanities. T he N E H grant was m ade possible by the Frank E. G annett N ew spaper Foundation’s 1976 gift to the university of $1 million for li­ brary endowment. The grant will provide ap­ proximately one dollar for every three dollars of the foundation’s gift, w hich was the largest gift for library endow m ent ever received by the University of Rochester. President R obert L. Sproull said th e univer­ sity will use th e N E H grant to acquire “addi­ tional materials in the humanities essential to u ndergraduate and graduate teaching and re­ search in nineteenth-century American history, art, and literature.” The grant will enable th e university to ac­ quire im portant materials in nineteenth-century studies th at are not available in w estern New York, Sproull said, and will benefit not only students and faculty at th e University of Roch­ ester b u t scholars at other institutions w ith w hich the university is affiliated through region­ al associations. These include the Five Associat­ ed University Libraries, composed of the University of Rochester, Cornell, Syracuse, and th e state universities at Buffalo and Bingham­ ton; the Rochester Area Colleges, an association of fourteen area colleges whose faculties have user privileges at the UR Library; and the Rochester Regional Research Libraries Coun­ cil, a cooperative library system th at supplies th e research needs of faculty and students, business and industrial m anagem ent personnel, professional persons, and independent scholars in a five-county area. T he G annett Foundation, w ith headquarters in Rochester, was established by the late foun­ d er of the G annett group of newspapers. It con­ tributes prim arily to educational, civic, charita­ ble, cultural, and health causes in communities nationwide served by G annett newspapers, in­ cluding the Rochester D emocrat and Chronicle and th e Rochester Times-Union. • T he Council on L ibrary Resources, Inc. ( C L R ) has aw arded funds to the libraries of the U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n , P a r k s i d e ($21,350) and D r e w U n i v e r s i t y ($18,845) to enable their staffs to carry out broadly based programs of self-study directed tow ard im proving library services and operations. In perform ing th e study, th e libraries will utilize a draft m anual resulting from procedures developed in a 1976 pilot project at the U niver­ sity of N orth Carolina at C harlotte (U N C C ), the first phase of the council’s Academic L i­ brary D evelopm ent Program (A L D P ). D uring the second phase, several institutions of various sizes and characters will work w ith the evolving model program. T he Carnegie-M ellon Universi­ ty Library was selected earlier this year as the first participant in this phase. I t is expected th at a refinement of the m anual an d its suggested procedures may result from these fu rth er ap­ plications. C LR initiated th e ALDP in 1975 in the b e ­ lief th at small and mid-sized academ ic libraries could benefit from looking closely at how they are meeting the needs of th e cam pus commu­ nity and at w hat could be done to im prove li­ brary services an d increase library use. Large research libraries th at are m em bers of the As­ sociation of Research L ibraries ( A R L ) m ay work tow ard similar goals through the M anage­ m ent Review and Analysis Program, form ulated w ith CLR assistance by the ARL Office of U ni­ versity Library M anagem ent Studies (O M S ). P. G rady Morein of the School of Library Science, N orth Carolina C entral University, is the ALDP project director. D uane W ebster, OMS director, will assist Morein and th e staffs of the participating libraries throughout the course of the study. • A file of ex-slave narratives, collected by th e W.P.A. Federal W riters Project betw een 1936-41 and housed in th e L ibrary of Con­ gress’ Archive of Folk Song, will be organized, cataloged, and annotated in a collaborative re­ search project by faculty at th e U n i v e r s i t y o f t h e D i s t r i c t o f C o l u m b i a (U D C ) and S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y . A $125,800 N ational Science Foundation grant has been aw arded to O. M arvene C ouch (U D C ) and H erm an R. Lantz of Southern Illinois U niversity, 330 both of whom have been working with portions of the material independently. O f the approximately 15,000 to 20,000 orig­ inal manuscripts, representing the results of in­ terviews w ith former slaves and the children of slaves, the library has microfilmed about 2,000 narratives th at were deposited in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. However, the bulk of the material is unorganized and uncat­ aloged, therefore making them inaccessible to scholars. In addition, extensive interviews orig­ inating from the state of Louisiana never reached the library and have been located at the Louisiana State Library in Baton Rouge. Narratives of ex-slaves and children of slaves from all the southern states and border states such as Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are thought to be included in the collection. Couch has devised a system for organizing and cataloging the narratives, and from July 1972 to April 1974, w ith the assistance of un­ dergraduate students, she organized, cataloged, and wrote annotated bibliographies for all the M aterials Produced by Friends of the Library Groups Needed The Library Administration Division of the American Library Association needs multiple copies of handout m ateri­ als produced by Friends of the Library Groups. The headquarters office of LAD provides an advisory service for those in­ terested in establishing new friends groups or for those interested in improv­ ing the program and activities of estab­ lished friends groups. The office maintains multiple copies of all kinds of friends materials, such as copies of bylaws, leaflets announcing ac­ tivities, issues of newsletters, brochures encouraging membership, pamphlets de­ scribing the purpose and accomplish­ ments of friends groups, announcements of programs, and any other materials that may be of interest to beginning or estab­ lished groups. The materials are provided free to any­ one requesting them , and, therefore, multiple copies in any num ber are need­ ed. This service is a p art of LAD’s ad­ visory services through which advice and information is provided to librarians and laypersons about many aspects of library operations, management, and services. Please send copies of materials to the following address: Library Administra­ tion Division, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611. narratives from the state of Alabama. A sub­ stantial effort has also been m ade to organize the materials from the states of Texas, Arkan­ sas, and South Carolina. In the meantime, Lantz h ad been examining the feasibility of using th e W.P.A. narratives contained on microfilm to examine marriage and family life among slaves. D uring the course of his study, he found many narratives to be in­ complete and other to be edited, w hich led him to suspect that some narratives on microfilm were not the original versions. Searching turned up the original manuscripts in the Archive of Folk Song. T he collaboration of these two scholars is ex­ pected to produce an invaluable resource to help clarify controversial issues surrounding the reassessment of the impact of slavery. There will be an attem pt to ascertain the authenticity of the narratives and to devise a way of com­ paring different versions of the same interview. A report will be prepared on the entire project, w hich will serve as a guide for future scholar­ ship. Contact: Information Office, Library of Congress, W ashington, DC 20540; (202) 426- 5108. M E E T I N G S & W O R K S H O P S J a n u a r y 6 : The Pratt Institute G raduate School of Library and Information Science will offer a workshop on P r o j e c t M a n a g e m e n t i n L i B r a r i e s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S y s t e m s . The workshop is designed for library and informa­ tion systems administrators; m iddle m anage­ ment-level individuals; and those involved in acquisitions, marketing, and evaluation of li­ brary and information systems. For further de­ tails see the November issue of C&R L News. J a n u a r y 9-13: A five-day intensive course on P r a c t i c a l A p p l i c a t i o n s o f M a r k e t i n g T e c h n i q u e s t o L i b r a r y a n d I n f o r m a t i o n S e r v i c e s , cosponsored by the Corporation of Professional Librarians of Q uebec/C orpora­ tion des Bibliothécaires Professioneis du Que­ bec (CPLQ/CBPQ), the Faculty of Managem ent of McGill University, and the G raduate School of Library Science of McGill University, will be held in Montreal. The course is open to all professionals inter­ ested in applying modern m arketing techniques to library and information services. The pro­ gram will include classes on the theory of social marketing and how it applies to libraries; small group discussions of relevant case studies; guest lectures on the m arketing programs of three li­ brary-related organizations; and project teams to develop sample m arketing plans for specific services. Classes will be conducted in English, b u t separate French and English case discussions and project teams are provided for. 331 T he cost, excluding accommodation, is $295, including four lunches. T here is a discount of $50 for mem bers of th e C P L Q /C B PQ . For fur­ ther information, contact Professor Vivian Ses­ sions, Director, G raduate School of Library Sci­ ence of McGill University, 3459 M cTavish St., Montreal, C anada H3A 1Y1; (5 1 4 ) 392-5947. J a n u a r y 14, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26: T he P ratt In ­ stitute G raduate School of Library and Inform a­ tion Science will once again offer two institutes on O n - L i n e T e r m i n a l S e a r c h i n g . For further details see the November issue of C &R L News. J a n u a r y 20-25: T he S i x t h A n n u a l C o n ­ f e r e n c e o f t h e A r t L i b r a r i e s S o c i e t y o f N o r t h A m e r i c a will be held in New York City a t th e Barbizon Plaza Hotel. For more informa­ tion, contact A RLIS/N A , P.O. Box 3692, Glen­ dale, CA 91201. Febru a r y 26-Ma r c h 3: Kent State Univer­ sity Libraries announces the continuation of its series of I n t e n s i v e W o r k s h o p s O n OCLC. Ad­ ditional workshops will be held in 1978: April 23-28, and June 4-9. For further details see the November issue of C&R L News. A p r i l 7: T he School of Library and Inform a­ tion Science, State University of New York at Albany, will offer a workshop entitled A n g l o - A m e r i c a n C a t a l o g i n g R u l e s , S e c o n d E d i t i o n : A P r e v i e w . D irected by Professor Gordon Stevenson, the workshop will discuss prob­ lems related to major rule changes expected and their implications for th e structure of cur­ ren t catalogs, and will survey a lim ited num ber of specific rule changes th a t should have an im­ p ortant im pact on library catalogs. T he staff will include Michael Gorman, director of tech­ nical services and professor of library science, University of Illinois; Paul Kebabian, director of libraries, University of Vermont; and Helen Schmierer, assistant systems librarian and li­ brary systems analyst, University of Chicago. For further information contact Gordon Stev­ enson, School of Library and Inform ation Sci­ ence, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY 12222; (518 ) 457-8577. A p r i l 17-19: T he S e c o n d A n n u a l N a t i o n ­ a l I n f o r m a t i o n C o n f e r e n c e & E x p o s i t i o n ( N I C E I I ) will be held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, W ashington, D.C. “Achieving O rganizational Objectives: The Role of the Information M anager” is the them e for N IC E II, a conference designed for infor­ mation managers in industry, government, and education. An advisory committee of information m an­ agers, corporate executives, government infor­ mation specialists, and educators has outlined the program of N IC E II to offer up-to-date, expert information and management tools to the more than 1,300 information managers expect­ ed to attend the meeting. For additional information, contact Infor­ mation Industry Association, 4720 Montgomery Lane, # 9 0 4 , Bethesda, MD 20014; (3 0 1 ) 654- 4150. A p r i l 27-28: F ederal docum ent and infor­ m ation accessibility will be the topic for the S e c o n d A n n u a l I n s t i t u t e o n F e d e r a l I n ­ f o r m a t i o n P o l i c y at the American University. Sponsored by the university’s School of Gov­ ernm ent and Public Information, the institute will address such issues as policy development, pricing, medium, technology, abstracting, in­ dexing, and dissemination of federal documents and information. These will be of special in ter­ est to representatives of trad e and professional associations, librarians, governm ent editors, and information specialists. T he tw o-day meeting, to be held on the American University campus, will be directed by Lowell H. H attery. Questions about the con­ ference should be directed to Dr. Lowell H. H attery, College of Public Affairs, T he Amer­ ican University, W ashington, DC 20016; (202) 686-2513. M I S C E L L A N Y • In August 1977 E arl E. Wassom, director of library services, announced the closing of the card catalog a t W e s t e r n K e n t u c k y U n i v e r ­ s i t y , replacing it w ith tw enty microfiche reader stations. E ach station is composed of a carrel, fiche reader, and a COM catalog. E ach COM catalog is divided into tw o sec­ tions: author-title, and subject. E ach entry con­ tains full bibliographic information plus a six­ digit com puter control num ber th a t links the patron w ith the on-line circulation system. T he com puter output microfiche catalog (48x) was produced on 597 microfiche con­ taining 1 million entries or 1.3 million catalog cards. Monthly cumulative supplements are produced. R ichard A. Jones, staff assistant for library systems, is planning to im plem ent the expansion of the present tw enty stations to fifty by the spring of 1978 and to adapt 78x reduction ra­ tio, w hich will decrease the num ber of micro­ fiche units in a catalog from 597 to 224. • A l f r e d U n i v e r s i t y , Alfred, New York, has aw arded a $340,000 contract to th e C. Pfeil Construction C om pany of Hornell for a library expansion project on the school’s central cam ­ pus. Foundation work on the two-story, 8,000- square-foot brick addition to Alfred’s Herrick 332 Memorial Library was begun last week. A uni­ versity spokesperson said construction was ex­ pected to be completed in the spring. A short corridor will connect the box-shaped library annex to the main building. T he addi­ tion will be used to house the library’s extensive periodicals collection and to provide individual study rooms for students. U nder terms of th e contract, part of the main library will be rem odeled to include a special collections room and stack space for an addi­ tional 50,000 volumes. The split-level Herrick Library, built tw enty years ago at a cost of $500,000, is now nearing its design capacity of 150,000 volumes and is also running out of adequate study space, uni­ versity officials said. The university’s board of trustees approved the expansion project in 1975. But M. Richard Rose, Alfred’s president, said last year he would not proceed w ith construction until actual fund­ ing was in hand. Financing was achieved a few weeks ago w hen the university successfully completed a year-long drive to raise $2 million for “urgent campus needs,” including the Herrick addition. Architects for the new structure were Can­ non Associates’ of Grand Island, New York. • Freshm an English teachers and librarians at the U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a ( U A ) have joined in an effort to equip new students w ith Intellectual Freedom T he N ational Commission on L ibrar­ ies and Information Science has adopted a resolution reiterating its support of the principle of intellectual freedom. The de­ velopment and m aintenance of a nation­ wide network to ensure basic minimums of library and information service to all requires the full and uniform protection of the C onstitution as guaranteed in the First and Fourteenth amendments. The commission resolution asserts that the recent use of the concept of “local community standards” threatens the guarantees of the First Amendment and chills the free exercise of the rights of speech and press and the freedom of ac­ cess; it states th at the use of ‘lo cal com­ m unity standards” is “… a threat to the national accessibility of communicative materials through both commercial and non-commercial means, and thus a threat to each citizen’s full exercise of the rights guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth am endm ents.” th at necessary skill for finishing college: how to use a university library. T he activity— a “L ibrary Skills Program”— was started because educators at UA were con­ cerned over incoming students who were not aware of the scope of library information re­ sources available to them. Some students had not m astered even “the most basic reference tools (n e e d e d ) to retrieve information in any subject field,” said Shelley Phipps, UA orientation librarian. W hile Phipps studies this year at Duke Uni­ versity in a library m anagem ent internship pro­ gram, R uth Dickstein, acting orientation librar­ ian, is im plem enting the library skills program a t the university. Dickstein said library orientation specialists administer to more than 2,500 students an in­ library slide and tape presentation on th e im­ portance of information resources in the educa­ tional process. T he program uses a self-guided, self-paced workbook of basic reference assignments and includes individualized follow-up guidance for students who work through a search strategy for a paper topic of their choice, she said. All freshman English composition students m ust complete the skills program as an integral p a rt of the docum ented research paper they are required to prepare for the course. A major reason for establishing the program was an increasing belief of faculty in all fields th a t students will make use of library resources to complete class assignments. Teachers expect students to expand their knowledge beyond the context of classroom lectures and assigned texts, Phipps said. In designing UA’s library skills program, Phipps w rote th a t “the teaching of the skills needed for independent self-education are cen­ tral to the concept of higher education today, especially in light of the rapid growth and in ­ creasing complexity of information, and the everchanging nature of knowledge w ithin any one subject discipline.” Dickstein said the program workbook is based on similar ones used at Pennsylvania State University and the universities of Wiscon­ sin and California at Los Angeles. T he workbook contains about a dozen assign­ ments, she said, covering such features as the basic library layout and classification systems, card catalog, encyclopedias, periodical and new spaper indexes, and statistical sources. A section of the workbook is also devoted to a guided search strategy that helps the student locate information on the topic chosen for his or her documented paper for th e freshman English course. More than 2,500 students are involved in th e program this fall, and an additional 1,500 are expected to complete the program by the end of the 1978 summer session, Dickstein said. 333 • The C o l o r a d o S t a t e B o a r d o f E d u c a ­ t i o n approved the Colorado Library Network Plan at its June 2 meeting. The goal for the Colorado Library Network is to develop and support an organization of li­ braries of various types to share library re­ sources and information for the benefit of the people of Colorado. Key activities to implement the proposal in­ clude building a computer data base to locate books in the various public, academic, school, and governmental libraries. By using the up- to-date information on the location of materials, librarians can borrow materials they do not have from other libraries. The plan also calls for providing expanded reference service, in­ cluding use of computerized literature searches for citizens throughout the state. It also recommends that both the Denver Public Library and the library at the University of Colorado at Boulder receive state funding to lend their materials to other libraries in the state. Other recommendations include maintaining state funds for payment for lending, a state li­ brary program that reimburses libraries for lending their materials to other libraries. Im­ proved communications systems among the li­ braries in the state, including use of computer terminals, telephones, and a courier service, also are cited. Im portant components in the networking configuration are the seven regional library ser­ vice systems that are headquartered in Pueblo, Denver, Greeley, Colorado Springs, Durango, Montrose, and New Castle. • The S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y Libraries BALLOTS Center has added the prestigious Los Angeles County Law Library to its net­ work. (BALLOTS = Bibliographic Automation of Large Library Operations using the Time­ sharing System.) Other California law libraries whose hold­ ings are available to subscribers include two of the largest— Stanford and University of Cali­ fornia at Berkeley, plus recent acquisitions Uni­ versity of California, Davis; McGeorge School of Law; and Golden Gate University School of Law. “The addition of Los Angeles County Law Library to the BALLOTS system will provide lawyers, law librarians, and law library patrons with a powerful on-line access tool to law li­ brary holdings,” said H enry Epstein, director of BALLOTS. “Access to the cataloging records of these libraries is as close as a telephone.” • After three months of operating both the “old” manual acquisition system and the “new” computerized acquisition-in-process control sys­ tem (called, after the name of its principal product, the “Catalog Supplement System” ), the General Library of the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i ­ f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , is now relying on the com­ puterized system as its basic means for financial and bibliographic control of order and in-pro­ cess records. Almost all purchase orders and exchange re­ quests sent to suppliers in the last three months have been produced by the computer. However, the library’s official records remained those produced by the manual system. Begin­ ning July 1, the official records were those pro­ duced by the computer system, and, w ith few exceptions, manual records will no longer be produced. One principal objective of the computerized system is to provide increased public access to material in the library, as well as increased availability of information about material that the library has on order and in process. To this end, all on-order and in-process material, as well as items recently cataloged, are listed (under author and title and series) on the weekly microfiche Catalog Supplement. A re­ cent week’s Catalog Supplement listed more than 52,000 items under more than 120,000 en­ tries. ■ ■