ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 153 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 members, please send the pertinent details to the ACRL Office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. May 20— Online Searching: Introduction to Non- Bibliographic Online Database Services, semi­ nar, Cuadra Associates; Los Angeles, Califor­ nia. O ther seminars will be held May 27 in Washington, D.C.; May 29 in Ottawa, Ontario; June 13 in Washington, D.C.; June 16 in Chi­ cago, IL; and June 19 in San Francisco, CA. Fee; $115 if paid in advance, $135 if invoiced. Contact: Cuadra Associates, Inc., 1523 Sixth St., Suite 12, Santa Monica, CA 90401; (213) 451-0644. 28— Microforms: Microforms in Libraries, basic course, AJ Seminars; Prince George Hotel, New York City. Fee: $75. Contact: A. J. Semi­ nars, 11205 Farmland Drive, Rockville, MD 20852; (301) 881-4996. 29- 30—AACR 2: AACR 2 for Librarians (one-day session, May 29); AACR 2 for catalogers (one day session. May 30), College of Library Sci­ ence, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ken­ tucky. C ontact: Nancy S. L ittle, d irecto r, Office of Continuing Education, College of Li­ brary Science, 465 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506; (606) 258-8876. June 2-13—Libraries and Politics: Institute on Librar­ ies and the Political Process— Federal, State, and Local Levels, workshop, Graduate Depart­ m ent of L ibrary and Inform ation Science, Catholic University of America; Washington, D C. Workshop leaders: John G. Lorenz and Alphonse F. Trezza. Contact: Graduate De­ partment of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, Washing­ ton, DC 20064; (202) 635-5085. 5-6—Online Searching: “Update 80,” Seventh Annual DIALOG Users Conference, Lockheed Information Systems, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C. A second “Update ’80” will be held November 10-11 in San Fran­ cisco. Fee: $110 (includes $20 of online search time to be used before the conference). Con­ tact: UPDATE ’80, Lockheed, 5020/580, 3460 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. 12-15—History: Association for the Bibliography of History, workshop on bibliographic tools, the teaching of bibliography, and the proces­ sing of and retrieval of information; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Contact: Warren F. Kuehl, Department of History, the University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325; (216) 375-7008. 16-20—Audiovisual: C ataloging A udiovisual Materials Using AACR 2, workshop, Mankato State U niversity, Mankato, Minnesota. Two credits. Contact: Nancy B. Olson, Instructional Media & Technology, Box 20, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN 56001; (507) 389- 1965. 16-20— Bookbinding: Calligraphy/Bookbinding Workshop, Capricornus School of Bookbinding & R estoration; B erkeley, C alifornia. P re­ requisite: at least one course in calligraphy. Fee: $125. Contact: Capricornus, P.O. Box 98, Berkeley, CA 94701; (415) 658-7930 or 843- 7860. 16-July 18—Archives: Nineteenth Summer Insti­ tute for Advanced Archival Studies, D epart­ ment of History and Graduate School of Libra- rianship and Information Management, Uni­ versity of Denver. Fee: $535. Contact: Dolores C. Renze, Institute for Archival Studies, De­ partment of History, 424 MRB, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208. 19-July 5— Management: “Decision Making in Library Management,” short course. School of Library Science Continuing Education Depart­ m ent, C ase W estern R eserve U niversity, Cleveland, Ohio. Fee: $270. Contact: Alan M. Rees, School of Library Science, Case Western R eserve U niversity, Cleveland, OH 44106; (216) 368-3500. 23-24—Audiovisual: C ataloging A udiovisual Materials using OCLC, workshop, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota. Con­ tact: see first June 16-20 entry above. 23-July 4— Bookbinding: Basic Bookbinding, course, Capricornus School of Bookbinding & Restoration; Berkeley, California. Fee: $300. Contact: See second June 16-20 entry above. 26-27—Online Searching: The DIALOG Sam­ pler, on-line sem inars and dem onstrations, Lockheed Inform ation Systems, Doral Inn, New York City. Contact: DIALOG Sampler, Lockheed, 50-20/201, 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304. 30— Chinese-American Librarians: E ighth Annual Conference of the Chinese-American Librarians Association; Confucius Plaza, 40 Di­ vision Street, New York City. Theme: “Current Issues in Descriptive Cataloging.” Fee: $5 ($3 for CALA members). Contact: John Lai, Har- vard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. ■■ New Research Assistants from G. K. Hall Reference Books Guide to Hindu Religion David J . Dell, w ith Thomas Hopkins, Robert M cDerm ott, Suzanne Hanchett, Gary Michael Tartakov, et al. ISBN 0-8161-7903-4 $39.75 Listings in the guide are arranged alphabetically by author and include Hindu history, religious thought and practice, sacred scriptures and rituals, popular practices, arts, m ythology, Hinduism in social and political life, and research aids. Available in July Guide to Buddhist Religion Frank E. 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An annotated guide to 450 English-language translations of books, disser­ tations, and articles completes this comprehensive guide. Available in A ugust The firs t tw o volumes in a five-volume series: Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: A n A n n o ta te d Index o f Letters, 1817-1871 Edited by John W . Blassingame and Mae G. Henderson The approximately 40,000 annotated letters and journals in these volumes record the views of both prominent and every­ day correspondents on the subject of slavery. The 15 to 30-word abstracts are arranged chronologically and give precise retrieval inform ation. V o lu m e I: 1817-1845 Annotated Index of Letters in the Philanthropist, Emancipa­ tor, Genius o f Universal Emancipation, A b olition Intelligen­ cer, A frican Observer, and the Liberator. ISBN 0-8161-8163-2 $60.00 Available in May V o lu m e II: 1835-1865 Annotated Index o f Letters in the Liberator, Anti-Slavery Record, Human Rights, and the Observer. ISBN 0-8161 -8434-8 $60.00 A vailable in June Henry Fielding: A Reference Guide LeRoy J . Morrissey ISBN 0-8161 -8139-X Price to be announced The first reference w ork to compile, annotate, and index more than tw o centuries of scholarly materials on Fielding. Cross-references trace major critical and scholarly contro­ versies. Available in July John Fowles: A R eference Guide Barry N. Olshen and Toni Olshen ISBN 0-8161-8187-X $12.00 This comprehensive guide lists and annotates every book and article ever w ritten about Fowles and his w o rk, as well as interviews, reviews, miscellaneous pieces, and passing references. 11 also supplies an inventory o f all editions of his books. Available in June W illiam Gilm ore Simms: A Reference Guide Keen Butterw orth and James E. Kibler, Jr. ISBN 0-8161 -1059-X Price to be announced A novelist and poet, Simms was the m ost im portant figure of the antebellum South. This book, the first ever to provide an exhaustive guide to his writings,cites more than 1000 c rit­ ical books, articles, and dissertations from Simms' own tim e up to the present. Available in July I Sir Thom as W y a tt and Henry H o w ard, Earl of Surrey: A Reference Guide Clyde W . Jentoft ISBN 0-8161-8176-4 Price to be announced Sixteenth-century poets W ya tt and Howard were the first to bring to English verse the sensibility and style of continental humanism. This is a comprehensive guide to books, articles, reviews, and dissertations about these tw o literary innovators. Available in July Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation ò /n c e H 7325 o f British and American Poems Past and P resenfH Nancy 0 . Martinez and Joseph M. Kuntz ISBN 0-8161-8313-9 $35.00 A comprehensive index to poetry analyses published from 1925 to 1977, w ith selective material published in 1978. The Checklist includes interpretations by phenomenologists, new literary historians, dialectical and psychological critics, linguists, stylistic experts, rhetoricians, and prosodists, as well as by formalists and self-avowed "n e w critics." Available in June The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's M ajo r Authors Edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David The first bibliographic effort o f its kind in the history o f Cana­ dian literature. A t its com pletion, this ten-volum e series will provide comprehensive, annotated coverage of all works by and about 50 o f Canada's major 19th- and 20th-century authors — both English and French. Volum e I: M argaret A tw ood, M argaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, M ordecai Richler, and Gabrielle Roy ISBN 0-8161-8491-7 $19.95 Available in June Free shipping and handling on orders accompanied by pay­ ment. Individuals m ust include payment on all orders. Prices outside the U.S. are 15% higher. 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