ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 40 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • T h e E lm o N eale P ickerill C ollection has been given to the B R O A D C A ST P I O N E E R S L l ­ RRA RY by Pickerill’s cousin, Eugene M. Baker. Pickerill studied radio with Guglielmo Marconi and learned to fly from the W right brothers. In 1905, he helped build a ten-station wireless tele­ graphy network in Colorado for American inven­ tor Lee De Forest, and three years later, he con­ stru cte d a radio station atop New Y ork’ s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. “Pick” was the first man to pioneer in air-to-ground communication (1910); to perpetuate a sea rescue via radio (1910); to present professional talent on radio (Geraldine Farrar, 1907); to receive a first-class radio license from the U .S . governm ent (1911); and he was chief radio operator aboard the first toll paying ship (S.S. K ro o n la n d ) to pass through the Panama Canal (February 2, 1915). After World War I duty in the Army Air Serv­ ice, Pick joined RCA, where in 1929, he became head of its aeronautical department. One of the many experiments he conducted there was test­ ing the use of television as a pilot aid. He retired in 1950 and died, at age 82, in 1968. The gift to the Broadcast P io neers Library documents Pickerill’s career through his co rre­ spondence with D e F orest, M arconi, Sarnoff, Clarence D. Tuska, and others. It contains books, catalogs, photos, and memorabilia that represent a cross-section o f electronic advancements made during this century. The Broadcast Pioneers Library is located in the NAB Building, 1771 W Street, N .W ., Wash­ ington, DC 20036. • The Gloria Grace Griffen W estern American Collection was dedicated November 10, 1977, at the U n i v e r s i t y o f N e v a d a - R e n o Library. The collection— one of the largest ever donated to th e u n iv ersity — co ntain s m ore than 3 ,6 0 0 books dealing with the trans-Mississippi W est and 180 Indian artifacts that are good examples of American Indian culture and craftsmanship. The artifacts, representative primarily o f the Plains Indians, include clothing, tack equipment, baskets, pottery, toys, and weapons. T h e c o lle ctio n was a gift from R o b ert and Grace Griffen o f Reno in honor of their daughter, Gloria, a distinguished history professor and re­ searcher of the West. The Griffens have actively supported the library for many years; Robert was the first president of the Friends o f the Univer­ sity o f N evada lib ra ry w hen th e group was founded in the 1950s. Griffen was an adopted son o f the Blackfoot tribe of Montana, and many of the artifacts were gifts to his family from the tribe. T he pieces date from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s. • The Milne Library of the S T A T E U N IV E R ­ S IT Y o f N e w Y o r k C o l l e g e a t G e n e s e o has received a valuable addition to its collection of Wadsworth family papers through a gift from the Honorable James T. Wadsworth of Geneseo, New York, former U .S. ambassador to the United Nations. Wadsworth has presented to the library approx­ imately 3 ,5 0 0 papers relating to the land office and o th e r bu siness and personal a ctiv itie s o f General James S. Wadsworth (1807-64) and his descendants, dating from the 1830s through the early decades of this century (1952). This group­ ing o f papers complements the large collection (C&RL N ew s, D ecem ber, 1976) donated in 1976 by William P. Wadsworth, also of Geneseo. T he Wadsworth estate was divided betw een G eneral W adsw orth and his b r o th e r W illiam Wolcott Wadsworth (1810-52) in the 1840s after the death of their father James (1768-1844), an original settler and land agent in western New York’s G enesee Valley. The receipt of these rec­ ords brings back together the accounts for lands in western New York, Ohio, and Michigan that were divided between the two sons at that time. For over 100 years they have been housed sepa­ rately in the land offices at the Homestead and at Number 1, Main Street, Geneseo. O f particular importance to future research in the geography and history of western New York will be th e reu nited co llection o f m anuscript maps o f the towns and settlements in the Phelps and Gorham s Purchase and the Pulteney estates west o f the G enesee River. The maps show in great detail early landmarks and the names of early landow ners from the 1790s through the 1850s. Although some duplicates and fragments of these maps are to be found in other collections such as the Ontario County Historical Society in Canandaigua, this is probably the most complete collection for the area in one repository. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a A T C h a p e l H i l l (UNC-CH) has received a col­ lection o f books, photographs, recordings, and manuscripts from noted folklorist Annabel Morris Buchanan of Paducah, Kentucky. The collection, assembled during Buchanan’s long career as a writer, performer, music teacher, composer, and student of the American folksong, was a gift from her and her children— Eleanor Crounse, Annabel Stainback, John P. Buchanan, and P a trick C. B u ch an an . T h e fam ily ch o se UNC-CH to house her collection because of the reputation and in terests o f D aniel Patterson, UNC-CH folklorist and professor of English, with whom she had corresponded. The collection’s disc and tape recordings and 41 tunebooks will be housed in the music depart­ m ent lib rary and th e m anuscripts and photo­ graphs in the Southern Historical C ollection of Wilson Library. Buchanan, bom in Groesbeck, Texas, and wife o f John Preston Buchanan o f Marion, Virginia, was active in a rtistic circles in Virginia in the 1920s and 1930s. She published stories and verse in magazines such as T he S ou th ern L ite ra r y M es­ sen g er and T he L y ric and wrote articles on gar­ dening for national magazines. T he Annabel Morris Buchanan C ollection in­ cludes forty-four nineteenth-century American re­ ligious tunebooks, some o f which are rare South­ ern shape-note songsters. T he m anuscripts in­ clud e sco res o f h e r own ch oral com positions (many of which were never published), unpub­ lished transcriptions of folksongs she collected, and th re e unpublished book-length studies o f folksong. Also in the collection are papers and photo­ graphs relating to the W hite Top Fold Festival; manuscripts relating to her work with the Na­ tional F e d e ra tio n o f M usic C lu b s; and c o rre ­ sp o n d en ce w ith p u b lish e r s, m u sicia n s , and folklorists. O th e r m ajo r folklo re co lle ctio n s housed at U N C -C H inclu de th e A rthur P alm er Hudson C o llectio n , M aude M inish Su tto n C o llection , L am ar S trin g fie ld C o lle c tio n , and Jo h n C . Campbell Collection. • T h e B a r n a r d C o l l e g e L ibrary has ac­ quired the personal library o f Gabriela Mistral, who received the Nobel Prize for literatu re in 1945 and was the first Latin American so hon­ ored. At present, the collection includes about 1,000 books, most o f which are annotated by the poet or inscribed by literary friends. Barnard re­ ceived the collection as a gift from Doris Dana, literary executrix for Mistral and alumna o f Bar­ nard College, where Mistral taught in 1930. Mis­ tral’s first book, D esolació n (1922), was published by the Hispanic Institute of Columbia University through the initiative o f Federico de Onís. G abriela M istral was not only an im portant poet but also an educator in Chile and Mexico. She served as consul for Chile in European posts as well as New York City, and as Chilean repre­ sentative to the U N. Commission on the Status of Women. H er lifelong interest in and work for children and th e ir w elfare made h e r a “god­ mother” of U N IC E F . A book catalog o f this collection will be pub­ lished in early April by Barnard College Library. The catalog will cost $3.50 and will be available from Amy B ro d t, B arnard C o lle g e L ib ra ry , Broadway at 117th S t., New York, NY 10027. Books from th e c o lle c tio n , m an u scrip ts, and memorabilia will be displayed during the Gab­ riela Mistral symposium at Barnard April 7 -8 . • The U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a Library has acquired a large collection o f manuscript and published materials relating to the life and writings o f Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, who was a m ember o f the 1871—72 expedition down the Colorado River, directed by John W esley Powell. D ellenbaugh was the expedition’s artist and cartographer. In addition, h e assisted the exp edition ’s photog­ rapher, Jack H illers. H e subsequently becam e na tio n a lly and in te rn a tio n a lly known for his books, such as A C a n y o n V oyage and R o m a n ce o f th e C o lo r a d o R iv e r, recalling the trip. He also published historical, biographical, and ethnologi­ cal books, such as N orth A m erican s o f Y esterday, B rea kin g th e W ild ern ess, F rem o n t a n d '49, and, finally, T h e L i f e o f G e n e r a l G e o r g e A rm stron g C uster. A ltogether, the collection contains more than 3 ,0 0 0 pages o f original letters and manuscript notes, twenty original Dellenbaugh drawings of Southwestern subjects, copies o f his books with his own m anu scrip t notes, and nearly 1 1 ,5 0 0 pages o f his p erson al d iaries co v erin g nearly thirty years o f his life. GRANTS • Two libraries are among the beneficiaries of a $ 1 ,0 2 5 ,0 0 0 grant recently awarded H A RV A RD U N IV E R S IT Y by the National Endowment for the Hum anities (N EH ) under its C h allen g e Grant Program. They are the Harvard-Yenching Library of the College Library, Faculty o f Arts and Sci­ en ces, w hich has receiv ed $ 2 3 5 ,4 7 7 , and the Frances Loeb Library o f the Graduate School of Design, which has received $120,355. For their part, in accordance with the rules o f the program, the two libraries must match their respective al­ lotments at a ratio o f three to one with nonfederal funding over the next three years. T h e H arv ard -Y ench ing L ib ra ry w ill use its grant money for general library support and to at­ tract additional funds for the m aintenance and expansion of its role as an international resource for East Asian studies. Funds already raised by the library toward its three-to-one matching mark include $200,000 from the Japan Institute at Har­ vard, $175,000 from the Harvard Club o f the Re­ public of China, $50,000 from the Andrew Mel­ lon Foundation, and $5,000 from the Chinn Ho Foundation o f Honolulu. This is the final year, too, o f an e a r lie r N E H gran t aw arded the Harvard-Yenching Library to support the catalog­ ing of Chinese rare books and the preservation microfilming o f fragile East Asian materials. The F ran ces Loeb Library plans on using its share to m eet growing demands for current ac­ quisitions, applying donations from th e public sector toward a permanent endowment for acqui­ sitions. T he major part of matching funds thus far raised has been in the form of large private gifts from a sm all group o f d onors, as w ell as an increase— both in size and in num ber— of con­ tributions by Friends o f the library. Harvard’s award o f $1,025,000 represents the 42 sum approved from a total university grant re­ quest o f $ 3 ,2 6 4 ,6 5 0 . O ther departm ents o f the university to draw on the Harvard grant are the Fogg A rt M u seu m , the B u s c h -R e is in g e r Museum, the Peabody Museum o f Archaeology and Ethnology, the East Asian Research Center, the C enter for Middle Eastern Studies, and the C enter for the Study o f Oral Literature. • C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y has re c e iv e d $34,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to prepare the publication of an eight-volume listing o f its library’s holdings on China. Cornell has the most extensively cataloged col­ lection in the world of books in W estern lan­ guages on China and on the C hinese in other parts o f the world. In addition, the collection, known as the Wason Collection, includes large holdings in the Chinese language, the fifth largest in the country. The collection at Cornell is unique in that its books in W estern languages, C hinese, and other Asian languages on the subject o f China are in a sin gle in te g ra te d catalog. T h is c h a r a c te r is tic m akes th e c o lle c tio n o f p a rtic u la r value to scholars, according to Paul Cheng, East Asia li­ brarian and head o f the project to publish the catalog. The catalog is expected to be prepared for pub­ lication within a year and a half. It will be pub­ lished by the C en ter for Chinese Research Mate­ rial o f the A ssociation o f R esearch L ib raries. Copies o f the eight-volume set will be available at all the leading libraries in the world and through the center. The collection contains vast resources of W est­ ern knowledge o f China as well as the documen­ tation o f the relations betw een China and the W est. T h e r e are m ore than 3 8 ,0 0 0 volum es, especially in the humanities and social sciences. The serials collection numbers 2 ,4 0 0 titles, 600 of which are received currently. In addition to ar­ chival and newspaper collections in microform, the co llection includes a nu m ber o f copies of manuscripts from other important collections. Integrated with the W estern language collec­ tion is the C hinese collection, which has more than 200,000 volumes. This collection is the fifth largest in the country and both complements and supplements the other collections. There is a bal­ ance between humanities, natural sciences, and social scien ces; and, although th ere is an em ­ phasis on modem China, there are substantial holdings supporting classical Chinese studies. The collection contains more than 4 ,2 0 0 serial titles, representing the learned journals o f the early Re­ publican period as well as the literary journals, newspapers, and major periodicals o f modern China. A special strength of the Chinese collections is the completeness o f the many series of Chinese classics that w ere reprinted after World W ar II. These collections (ts’ung shu) have been cataloged item by item, thus presenting an almost unique bibliographical record of more than 6 ,0 0 0 indi­ vidual titles. Another aspect of interest in the collection is the good representation of materials by and about Chinese in other parts of the world. There is also a significant number of Japanese books and peri­ a odicals dealing with China in the collection. The collection at Cornell was started from a p rivate lib ra ry o f 9 ,0 0 0 volum es d onated by Charles William Wason to Cornell in 1918. The Wason C o lle ctio n has grown into a lib rary o f more than 3 6 0 ,000 volumes, with about 260,000 volumes related to China in Chinese, Japanese, and W estern languages. Support for much o f the growth in Chinese material since 1961 has come from money provided by the Ford and Mellon foundations. MEETING SUMMARIES • The New England Chapter o f the Association of College and Research Libraries held a work­ shop on G r a p h i c s IN L i r r a r i e s at the Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard University, on O c­ tober 28, 1977. The meeting focused on ways in which librarians can develop more sophisticated approaches to all forms of graphic design. James Robison, director o f media for the New­ ton (Mass.) Public Schools, delivered the keynote address on “Principles o f Good G raphics.” Robi­ son used slides to demonstrate such basic e le ­ ments as linear relations, placement o f space, and organization of symbols. He noted that signs tend to be overloaded with print. Discipline is needed in filling space. Using the principles o f contrast, repetition, and harmony, one can achieve a bal­ ance between letters and graphic symbols. Katherine Selfridge, head of the printing and graphics department at the Architects Collabora­ tive, discussed “Signage: Planning and Producing Effective Signs and Signage System s.” Sign sys­ tems should embody graphic and functional rela­ tionships. They requ ire planning and cohesive implementation. A good system should explain the organization s functioning clearly and attrac­ tively. Sign information must be organized into priorities with the importance given a piece of in­ formation reflected in the size o f the sign. Large signs identify m ajor services and d epartm en ts while medium-sized signs indicate specific areas within departments. Signs giving procedures and rules should be smaller and pleasantly stated. All sign systems need clarity o f message, noticeabil­ ity, maintainability, consistency o f format, and adaptability for future needs. In a session on “P ractical N e w s le tte r in g ,” Norm Sperling, assistant editor of Sky a n d T ele­ sco p e magazine, stressed the importance of eye­ catching and timely formats to convey the neces­ sary information to readers. Illustrating his pre­ sentation with the worst newsletters available, he 43 7 outlined the basic features of newsletters and the effective arrangement of type and blank space to create an attractive layout. In the afternoon a “Graphic Aids Seminar” was conducted by Steve Banis, regional manager of Letraset USA, In c., to show the wide variety of commercial media available to aid libraries in de­ signing and producing their own graphics. The program concluded with a series o f dem­ onstrations: (1) “Home-grown Graphics,” by Janet Freedman, Salem State College, and David Kel­ ley and Al Lee, Fitchburg State College; (2) “L et­ terin g and Sig n -M akin g D e v ic e s ,” by A rline Willar and George Robinson, Northeastern Uni­ versity; and (3) “Visuals to be Photographed,” by Chris Bowman, Harvard University. Malcolm C. Hamilton, the program chairman, and his c o m m itte e — H e len A iello , S h e r r ie Bergm an, Ja n e t Freed m an, Eva Jon as, David K elley , E lle n L e v in , A deline O ak ley , G u est Perry, and Arline Willar— successfully produced a workshop that instructed the 165 participants in graphics through excellent professional presenta­ tions and th ro u g h the s o p h is tic a te d use o f graphics in the program materials them selves.— K a th leen G u n n ing, R e fer e n c e L ib r a r ia n , B row n U niversity L ib ra r y . • D uring the week o f O cto b er 9 - 1 4 , 197 forty librarians from twenty-six states and the District o f Columbia met on the campus o f the State University o f New York at Albany to learn about and discuss problems of L i b r a r y S E R V ­ IC E t o t h e A d u l t H a n d i c a p p e d i n P u b l i c a n d Ac a d e m i c L i r r a r i e s . Funded under Title IIB of the Higher Educa­ tion Act as a library training institute, the pro­ gram was planned and directed by Lucille Wha­ len, associate dean of the School o f Library and Information Science at Albany, and Joan Miller, associate, Resources for the Handicapped, New York State Education Department. The keynote speech, “The Handicapped in T o­ day’s Society,” was given by Keith Wright, dean of the College o f Library and Information Serv­ ices at the University of Maryland. During the week the historical and attitudinal aspects of the topic were covered by Genevieve Casey, profes­ sor of library science at Wayne State University; Ruth Velleman, director of the Human Resources Center at Albertson, New York; and Dr. Maxine Mays o f the Ohio Department of Mental Health. A rchitecture and problems o f physical access were presented by June Shapiro, assistant direc­ tor o f the Division of Library D evelopm ent in Connecticut, and Stanley Tigerman, Chicago ar­ chitect who designed the Chicago Regional Li­ brary for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Two handicapped nonlibrarians represented the library u sers’ point o f view: Hannan Selvin, a blind so cio lo g y p ro fesso r from SU N Y Sto ny Brook, and Sally Donnan, principal personnel ex­ aminer for New York State Civil Service. Sharon Hammer, librarian at the Washington Regional L ibrary for the Blind and Physically H andicap ped, d e scrib e d ou treach serv ices in Seattle, Washington. Network services supporting such programs w ere described by Ellen Hahn, assistant ch ie f for network development, Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library o f Congress. One session was devoted to information sys­ tems, clearing h o u ses, and data b ases, with a demonstration o f appropriate on-line retrieval sys­ tems. In another session, Keith Wright described and demonstrated various aids and equipm ent d esig ned for th e h an d icap p ed . So m e o f the equipment had been seen by the participants the previous day during field trips to facilities for the handicapped in the area, such as the New York State Regional Division for the Blind and Physi­ cally H an dicap ped and the O . D . H eck D e ­ velopmental C enter. A panel on Thursday after­ noon presented ongoing programs in public and academic libraries. T h e final session was d evoted to two sp e­ cialized topics: bibliotherapy, presented by Grace Lyons, ch ie f of special services at the D. C. Pub­ lic Library; and the role o f the governor’s confer­ en ces in serving the handicapped by B ettina , Wolff, adm inistrative officer at the New York State Library. Each participant is expected to go back to his or her own library or system and present a simi­ lar institute or workshop on the same topic. The fact that over twice as many applied for the insti­ tute as could be accepted attests to the fact that there is great need for further information on im­ proving services to the handicapped. T he pro­ ceedings for this institute are being prepared and should be available within a few months. For fur­ ther information, contact: Dr. Lucille Whalen, School o f Library and Information Science, State University o f New York, Albany, NY 12222; (518) 4 57-8575! • One o f the largest gatherings o f librarians and media and information specialists ever held in Virginia met at the first joint conference o f the Virginia L ib rary Association and the Virginia Educational Media Association. W ith a them e o f T E C H N O L O G Y , IN F O R M A ­ T IO N , AND S O C I E T Y , the joint conference com­ bining the annual meetings o f both organizations took p la ce N o v e m b e r 1 7 - 1 9 , 1 9 7 7 , at the mountaintop resort, the Homestead, a national historic landmark in Hot Springs. Keynote speaker Donald P. Ely told the 750 conferees that media services in education have reached a peak o f technological development and that what is needed now is not new methods but better quality. Ely said the decline o f scholastic aptitude scores has stimulated a back-to-basics at­ titude toward education, but he warned that an either/or a ttitu d e toward ed ucational TV and reading and writing skills is a trap. 44 "W e must becom e pioneers in the technologi­ cal jungle o f media, and with boldness and origi­ nality educate people how to use TV, film, and computers rightly,” he said. Television has in­ finite potential for education, according to Ely, but information specialists must master use of TV and other modem communications techniques. E ly is professor of communications at Syracuse University and director of the C en ter for Study of Information and Education. Eric Moon, president of the American Library Association, told th e conferees that librarians have done little to influence formulation o f a na­ tional information policy. He urged action before business and industry “exploit this energy source as they have coal and oil,” with little concern for the public good. Moon is also president of Scare­ crow Press and former L ib ra r y J o u r n a l editor. Alphonse F . Trezza, executive director o f the National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science, also addressed the question of na­ tional information policy. He told convention del­ egates to prepare now for the first W hite House Conference on Libraries and Information Science to be held in 1979. Trezza said the conference is designed to produce action, but librarians must first d eterm in e at local and state levels what Americans want included in a national informa­ tion policy. A m erican L ib r a r ie s editor Art Plotnik startled and entertained the conventioneers with satiric n songs, serm ons, and im itations pu nctuated by sound effects. Speaking on American library b e ­ havior, Plotnik said librarians have a “schizoid compulsion” to form special interest groups and consequently the profession is “in danger of los­ ing all co h eren ce." He also said librarians argue m in or q u e stio n s too serio u sly and “ co u nt everything— except what counts.” O th e r p ro m in ent speakers included D aniel G ore, library d irecto r at M a c a lester C ollege; Johnnie Givens, executive director o f the South­ eastern Library Association; Carol C. Henderson, assistant director of the ALA Washington office; Frank Norwood, executive director of the Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications; and Howard Hitchens, executive director of the As­ sociation for Educational Technology. • Q u a n t i f y i n g Q u a l i t y — a workshop o performance measures in libraries and networks, was sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Scien ce Sep­ tember 8—9, 1977. The them e was provocative, although some of the speakers seemed to stray from paying strict attention to the apparent paradox o f the title. Kjell Samuelson, chairman o f the informatics pro­ gram of the Royal Institute o f Technology and University o f Stockholm, keynote speaker o f the workshop, described vast celestial spaces filled with satellites that are going 90 percent unused, hanging there idle when they could be available for the transmission o f digital information if we could reach an international technological com­ mitment to such a project. James Dolby, a mathematician from San Jose State U niversity, d escribed perform ance mea­ surement as first trying to find out what the sys­ tem d oes and how p eo p le use it, and he cautioned that change should come very carefully and only after listening to the user. He suggested going to the reference desk before trying to rede­ sign the library. Another m athematician, Howard Resnikoff of the University o f California, Irvine, Department of Mathematics, discussed the need to measure performance to be able to quantify quality. I f the data base is very small, he said, there is probably no need to measure its quality. But large-scale systems need to have quantifiable measures to test their usefulness. The link betw een badly de­ signed archive systems and the measurement of their usefulness has not been clearly recognized. Libraries are the largest organized structures in civilization. T he desire to attem pt to provide coherent access to library collections suggests that we are indeed very interested in their organiza­ tion, but, when discussing other forms o f han­ dling, storing, and accessing these materials, we should realize that nothing we have compares in complexity with our large archives. Therefore, we cannot look to others for guidelines, because no one has attempted anything like this before. 45 H e gave some rather stunning figures on the number o f characters in an article, a book, the U C I Library, and the Library o f Congress, relat­ ing these to the various storage capacities o f exist­ ing types o f hardware and pointing out that mass storage systems, as they increase in capacity, are also decreasing in cost. One video disc, for exam­ ple, could store the equivalent o f 1,600 books. Annual world p ro d u ctio n co u ld b e stored on twenty discs per year in digitally coded form. O ne concluded, after the various remarks, that quantifying quality is not a contradiction in terms or a paradox bu t a very difficult series o f job s that m ust b e d one to insu re th at ou r inform ation needs are m et— and met in a useful, productive m anner. — U n iv ersity o f C a lifo r n ia , I r v in e , L i­ b ra r y Item s. MEETINGS & W ORKSHOPS F e b r u a r y 2 2 -2 3 : O n l i n e : P h a s e I I is the name of a seminar-workshop to be held in Aus­ tin, Texas. T he program, sponsored by the Texas chapters o f the Special Libraries Association and the American Society for Information Science, is aimed at users o f on-line systems who have had a year or more experience. Although the emphasis is to be on the practical aspects o f on-line use, some theoretical issues will also b e discussed. A special feature will be a two-hour session on on­ line cataloging. R egistration fee: $20 for m em b ers who p re ­ register; $30 for nonm em bers and for m embers registering at the meeting, and $10 for students. To register, contact Nancy Tissing, Texas Medical Association Library, 1810 North Lamar, Austin, T X 78701; (512) 4 7 7 -6074. M a r c h 1 0 : O n - L i n e L i t e r a t u r e S e a r c h ­ i n g is the them e o f a workshop to be presented by th e G ra d u a te Sch o ol o f L ib r a r y S c ie n c e , Drexel University. F or further information, con­ tact D irector, Continuing Professional Education, D rexel U niversity, 32nd and C h estnu t Stre ets, Philadelphia, PA 1 9 1 0 4 . M a r c h 1 6 - 1 7 : T h e S o u t h e a s t e r n C o n ­ f e r e n c e o n A p p r o a c h e s t o B i b l i o ­ g r a p h i c I n s t r u c t i o n w ill b e ho sted b y th e R o b e r t S c o t t S m a ll L ib r a r y , C o l­ lege of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. The conference, intended for academic librarians presently involved in instructional programs as well as those who are initiating such programs, will address itself to several areas o f concern in bibliographic instruction: o b jectiv es for b ib lio ­ graphic in s tr u c tio n ; in s tr u c tio n a l e v a lu a tio n ; faculty-librarian communication techniques; bib­ liographic instructio n in the So u the ast; grants available for bibliographic instruction programs; and a panel on “Reaching the Student through B ib lio g r a p h ic In s tr u c tio n : W h ic h M eth od W orks?,” which will feature presentations focus­ ing on different approaches in the philosophy and application o f bibliographic instruction programs. Registration will be limited to 1 5 0 persons. F o r f u r th e r in fo r m a tio n , c o n ta c t C e r is e O berm an -Soroka, R o b ert Sc o tt Sm all L ib rary, College o f Charleston, Charleston, SC 2 9 4 0 1 . M a r c h 2 0 : C u r r e n t D e v e l o p m e n t s i n G o v e r n m e n t D o c u m e n t s is the them e o f a workshop to be sponsored by the New England L ib ra ry N etw ork ( N E L I N E T ) G o v e r n m e n t D o c u m e n ts T a sk G ro u p . I t w ill b e h e ld at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. For further information, contact Mrs. Jan Swan­ beck, Baptist Library, Boston C ollege, Chestnut Hill, MA 0 2 1 6 7 . M A R C H 3 0 - A P R I L 2 : Illinois State University (ISU), in cooperation with the Illinois State L i­ brary, will conduct a P E R S O N N E L E V A L U A T IO N I n s t i t u t e f o r L i b r a r i a n s with a grant of $ 1 5 , 0 0 0 from the Library Services and Construc­ tion Act. Cosponsors o f the institute are the Department o f Information Sciences and the College of Con­ tinuing Education and Public Service at ISU . T h e in s titu te w ill focus on inform ation and skills needed to evaluate the performance o f li­ brary staff. T h e format will include large-group sessions, small-group workshops and one-to-one conversation. Participation is limited to 1 0 5 public, academic, sp ecial, and sch ool lib ra ria n s. T h o se who a t­ tended the first such institute two years ago in Charleston will be given preference to attend the one at ISU . 46 Forrest G. Wisely, assistant professor of infor­ mation scien ces at IS U , is the institu te coor­ dinator. More information is available from him at ISU . A P R IL 7: The School of Library and Informa­ tion Science, State University of New York at A l­ bany, will offer a workshop e n title d 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 . For further information, see the D ecem ber issue o f C & RL News. A P R IL 20 -2 1 : The Archives-Libraries Commit­ tee of the A f r i c a n S t u d i e s A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its Spring 1978 meeting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) will m eet April 21. Meetings are always open to interested colleagues. For more information, con­ tact Ms. Y v e tte S c h e v e n , C h a ir p e rs o n , Archives-Libraries Comm ittee, 220A University L ib ra ry , U n iv e r sity o f Illin o is at U rb ana- Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, or see A frican a L ib ra r ies N ew sletter, no. 16 (March 1978). M a y 4 - 5 : Project L O EX (Library Orientation/ Instructional Exchange), the national clearing­ house for academic library instruction located on the campus o f Eastern Michigan University, is planning the E I G H T H An n u a l C O N F E R E N C E O n L i b r a r y O r i e n t a t i o n /In s t r u c t i o n F o r Ac a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s . The conference will be held on the Eastern Michigan University campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. For further information, see the January issue of C & R L News. M a y 7 - 1 9 : T he College o f Library and Infor­ mation Services, University of Maryland, is plan­ ning the T w e l t h A n n u a l L i b r a r y Ad m i n i s ­ t r a t o r s D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m . For fur­ ther information, see the January issue of C & RL News. M ay 2 2 -2 4 : T he 1978 M i d - Y e a r M e e t i n g o f t h e A m e r i c a n S o c i e t y f o r I n f o r m a ­ t i o n S c i e n c e (ASIS) will be held at Rice Uni­ versity, Houston, Texas. The conference them e is “Management of Information System s.” The program includes: (1) sessions planned by several ASIS Special Interest Groups: (2) a panel session on user education for on-line systems; (3) a session on sociological aspects o f information handling in bureaucratic institutions; (4) an in- depth workshop on decision-m aking/problem ­ solving; and (5) a p recon ference workshop on forecasting, modeling, and simulation. For further information on the seventh ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, contact Stephanie Normann, School of Public Health Library, University of T exas at H o u sto n , Box 2 0 1 8 6 , H o u sto n , T X 7 7 0 2 5 . F o r reg istratio n d etails, co n ta ct A SIS Headquarters, 1155 Sixteenth S t., N .W ., Wash­ ington, DC 20036. J u l y 2 4 - A u g u s t 18. The T w e l f t h An n u a l Ar c h i v e s I n s t i t u t e o f the Georgia D ep art­ ment of Archives and History, Atlanta, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration, experience in research use, and management o f traditional and modem documentary materials. T he program fo­ cuses upon an integrated archives/records man­ agement approach to records keeping and fea­ tures lectures, seminars, and supervised labora­ tory work. Instructors are experienced archivists and records managers from a variety o f institu­ tions. Emphasis is on appraisal, arrangement, and description of both governmental and private rec­ ords. O ther topics include records control and scheduling, reference services, preservation tech­ niques, and archival administration. Enrollm ent is limited to eighteen participants. F ee: $225 for noncredit participants; $576 for six quarter hours’ graduate credit from Emory University. A cer­ tificate is awarded to those who successfully com­ plete the institute course. Housing is available at a m odest rate. Application deadline: May 15, 1978. For further information, write to Training Officer, Archives Institute, Georgia Department of Archives and History, 330 Capitol Ave., At­ lanta, GA 30334. MISCELLANY • The University Libraries at the U N IV E R S IT Y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a have reported sig­ nificant increases in the library budget for 1977- 78. The library was recognized as first priority in the university budget. The prim e emphasis was given to the books and serials budget, which was increased by 53.4 percent in a combination of regular and supple­ mental funds. Increased allocations were given to the funds so that the library will spend the same amount on monographs as it does for serials. A salary pool was created for the library faculty to be applied, based on merit. It was recognized that the librarians’ salaries were lower than their peers in comparable institutions. The subsequent salary increases for all professional ranks averaged 12.3 percent. In addition, the budget for student wages support has been increased by 16.4 per­ cent. USC began the year with the installation o f a security system in its Doheny Research Library, O C L C in the catalog departm ent, a six-month evaluation o f B ro-D art’s automated Instant R e­ sponse O rder System in the acquisitions depart­ ment, and, in cooperation with the library school, a conversion of the library science library shelflist to create a COM catalog in the fall. Outside fund­ ing is being sought for an automated circulation system, with the goal of installation in 1978. • S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y has announced the ap p o in tm en t o f a ss o cia te p rovost Edw ard E . Shaw as interim director of the BALLO TS C enter (BA LLO TS = Bibliographic Automation o f L i­ brary Operations using the Time-sharing System). Shaw replaces Hank Epstein, who is forming In ­ 47 form ation Transform In d u stries, a consulting company in the area of library automation and computer systems. The appointment of Shaw, a senior university officer, to the interim directorship reflects Stan­ ford’s basic commitment for the development of BALLOTS. Hereafter, BALLOTS will report di­ rectly to the provost’s office rather than the Stan­ ford C enter for Information Processing (SCIP). This transfer reflects the importance BALLOTS has to the university and the university’s com­ mitment to guide the BALLOTS Center to inde­ pendent, nonprofit status. The university’s goals are two-fold. First, the university desires that BALLOTS evolve into a national library automation netw ork focusing upon the unique needs of academic and research libraries and their universities more generally. Second, because Stanford has close ties with li­ braries in the western United States, BALLOTS should be made available to all types of libraries in California and adjacent states. Additionally, Stanford announces the appoint­ ment of John Schroeder as associate director for technical services for BALLOTS. Schroeder has been manager of Interactive and Database Sys­ tems of SC IP and brings a strong technical and managerial complement to BALLOTS. • At the request of the Library of Congress, the C o u n c i l o n L i b r a r y R e s o u r c e s , I n c . (CLR), has undertaken the preparation o f a de­ tailed implementation plan for a national peri­ odicals center. The plan will contain the technical requirements necessary to operate such a center, including location and design of a facility, equip­ ment, personnel, services, collection, manage­ m ent, data p rocessin g su pport system s, schedules, prices, and costs. The study will re­ quire approximately eight months to complete. Creation o f a national periodicals center was the central recommendation of a report commis­ sioned and, earlier this year, endorsed by the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science. The report proposes that the Library of Congress (LC) be the responsible agent in the implementation of the center, which would con­ tain a comprehensive, dedicated collection of pe­ riodicals to supplement local resources. LC will form an advisory group to consider the implications of the technical plan and other mat­ ters related to a national periodicals center. If the Library of Congress and the committee confirm the recommendation that an LC-adm inistered center is the most appropriate route to effective sharing of periodicals and if the necessary funds are available, LC will undertake to establish and operate the proposed lending facility. It is antici­ pated that the technical plan resulting from the study will be usable by another agency should LC find it infeasible to assume management re­ sponsibility. • The library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take a big step into the e le ctro n ic age late this summ er with a com ­ puterized circulation system. Students will know something has changed when they find typewriter-size computer termi­ nals placed throughout the library and in all thirty-five departmental libraries. Gone will be the yellow, notched cards they had to fill out— one for each book. Instead, library users will turn to the keyboard in search of a book. They— or a librarian— will type out only the first five letters of a book’s title and the first four letters of the author's name, or the book’s call number. The terminal screen will answer immediately, telling if the book is in, at which library or librar­ ies it is located, or, if it is out, when it is due back and if anyone has reserved it. I f it is in, a punch of the proper buttons will bring it to the checkout desk. “Just not having to fill out those cards ought to make everybody happy,” said Hugh Atkinson, university librarian. A student will have to pro­ vide only his or her ID number and the book number to check out a text. • Increased student enrollments in the nation’s colleges are placing added strains on hard-pressed public libraries. In recent years, the number of enrollees in publicly supported four-year colleges has tripled, while those in two-year institutions jumped five times. The bulk of these students regularly u tiliz e p u blic lib ra r ie s to do th e ir homework and research projects. According to a fact sheet on library users re­ leased by the N a t i o n a l C i t i z e n s E m e r ­ g e n c y C o m m i t t e e t o S a v e O u r P u b l i c L i b r a r i e s , part of the reason for heavy student use o f public libraries is that many academic li­ braries are understaffed, lack adequate collec­ tions, and operate on short hours. Students are forced to go where they can find the books they need when they need them, usually their public library. The phenomenal recent growth of commuting colleges, where students live at home and travel to classes, has made community public libraries more convenient places for students to work, par­ ticularly in urban areas, th e re b y adding to budgetary pressures. In addition to traditional college-age student li­ brary users, the U .S. has a growing number of part-time adult learners enrolled in higher educa­ tion. For the first time in U.S. history, a majority of students above the high school level today are adults who are getting their education on a part- time basis. This growing number of older, work­ ing students is adding to the pressures on public library resources. • Nine years after it officially began and fifteen years after Earl Warren gave his approval and the search for funding began, the Regional Oral His­ tory O ffice (RO H O ) o f the U n i v e r s i t y o f 50 nd C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , announces the com­ pletio n o f th e E a rl W arren E ra Oral H istory Project. Focu sing on the years 1 9 2 5 -5 3 , 146 persons prominent in the areas o f politics, governmental administration, and criminal ju s tic e w ere inter­ viewed about their experiences during the W ar­ ren era in C alifornia. T h e resultin g fifty-three bound volumes o f single-spaced transcriptions are now available for deposit in manuscript libraries for research. Funding for the exten sive p ro ject, indicates Willa Baum, Regional Oral History Office direc­ tor, was a first for ROHO in variety o f sources. A matching grant offer from National Endowment for the Humanities, renewed several tim es, was the impetus for donations from friends and col­ leagues o f th e c h ie f ju s tic e or sp e cific in te r ­ view ees, h isto rical groups, the F rie n d s o f the Bancroft L ib rary , Law C lerks o f Earl W arren, and several California foundations. T he last year of the project was funded by the California Heri­ tage Preservation Commission. W arren P roject D irecto r Amelia Fry and her staff of four interview ers have now moved on to the next political period in California, the Good­ win K night-Pat Brown era. T he project will take three years to complete. • D evelopm ent o f a structural framework a definitions for co lle ctin g and rep o rtin g library statistics has progressed rapidly with the assis­ ta n ce o f r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s o f th e A M E R I C A N L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n , A s s o c i a t i o n o f R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s , and th e N a t i o n a l C e n t e r f o r E d u c a t i o n a l S t a t i s t i c s . M easurement categories have been established for organizational characteristics, revenues, per­ so nn el, fa c ilitie s , a ssets, a ctiv ity le v e ls , user groups, and performance. T h ese categories can be allocated over the programmatic functions of administrative services, user services, technical/ co llectio n serv ice s, instructional serv ices, and support services. T hree levels o f detail have been described to provide options for the “fineness” of data to be collected by an individual library, de­ pending upon its size and complexity. T he struc­ ture and definitions were pilot-tested by five vol­ unteer institutions in the Pennsylvania State Col­ lege System. Outcome measures, as expected, have proved to b e the m ost difficult statistics to estab lish. W hile various measures o f activity can be e m ­ ployed, it would be useful to be able to evaluate the impact o f the activity on a library’s effective­ ness. A spring meeting o f several researchers and p r a c tic in g lib r a r y m an ag ers c o n c e r n e d w ith measuring library effectiveness was most helpful in bringing the state o f the art to bear on this as­ pect o f the statistical data base. The project ended this summer with the publi­ cation o f a d e sc rip tio n o f th e rec o m m e n d e d library statistical data base stru ctu re and d efinitions for formats and data elem ents. Copies may be ordered from the National C e n te r for H ig h e r E d u c a tio n M a n a g e m e n t S y s te m s ( N C H E M S ), P .O . D ra w e r P , B o u ld e r , C O 80302. Apply for price. • As the general econom y looks forward to solid, if not spectacular, growth during the next five years, book p rice inflation is ex p e cted to abate to rates averaging from 5 ½ to 9 percent, according to a comprehensive new study o f pub­ lishing industry trends and prospects. As a result, the study predicts, publishers’ unit sales will recover somewhat, with a projected 4 .2 p e rce n t in cre a se b e tw een 1976 and 1 9 8 1 , a l­ though they will still be running well behind dol­ lar sales, which are expected to increase by an additional 4 4 .2 percent during this period. T hese are among numerous conclusions drawn by B o o k I n d u s t r y T r e n d s — 1977 ($275; $150 to libraries), a research report which for the first time provides economic analyses and marketing forecasts for the en tire book field. W ritten by John P. D e s s a u e r, Paul D . D o e b le r , and E . Wayne Nordberg, the volume was published on November 1 by the Book Industry Study Group, In c., a not-for-profit organization devoted to ob­ je ctiv e research into basic book industry situa­ tions and problems. The first section o f the report, written by Paul D. D oebler, industry consultant and contributing editor o f P u b lish e rs W eekly , reviews major indus­ try trends, their history and likely future course. Certain industry segments, D oebler notes, such as book manufacturing, have passed through cy­ cles well ahead o f other sectors, such as publish­ ing and retailing— providing significant clues re­ garding the future course of these sectors. In retailing, D oebler foresees the formation of smaller chains o f stores but predicts the likeli­ hood o f business failures by firms that have tried to grow too rapidly. H e forecasts the growing focus o f marketing efforts around subject themes in books, leading to ultimate specialization among bookstores, which will emphasize unique areas in which th ey can provide su p erior serv ice over their competitors. In the library area, D oebler suggests that the primary need will be, not so much technology or new services, but, as in other industry segments, better-quality professional management to cope with the financial challenges facing these institu­ tions. Hardbound and paperback books— but in par­ ticular paperbacks— will continue to gain favor with general consumers, according to Dessauer. Dollar sales o f retailers and direct mail marketers will continue to rise at annual rates ranging b e ­ tween 8 and 12 percent. Declining school and college enrollments and a fiscally conservative national mood will continue to affect the hard-hit educational and library mar­ kets, D essauer observes, with little hope for sufficient 51 d federal largesse to bail them out. T h e B ook In d u stry Study G rou p , I n c ., was founded in D e c e m b e r 1975 as a not-for-profit corporation supported by its m em b ers who are publishers, book manufacturers, paper manufac­ tu re rs, r e ta ile r s , w h o le s a le rs, lib ra r ia n s , and oth ers associated with the book industry. T he group has thus far published th re e studies: on bo ok in d u s try in fo r m a tio n n e e d s , on p a p e r availability, and on future lib rary acquisitions. Two m ajo r re s e a rc h p ro je c ts a re c u rre n tly in p ro g ress: on c o n s u m e r d em o g ra p h ics and a t­ titudes and on the relationship o f manufacturing capacity to publishers’ demands for printing. F o r fu r t h e r in fo r m a tio n , c o n ta c t: Jo h n P. Dessauer, Book Industry Study Group, P .O . Box 1174, D arien, C T 06820. • Public libraries in the U .S .— both large an small— have extensive and high quality holdings in the humanities. T he finding was reported by H erbert Goldhor, director o f the Graduate School o f L ib r a r y S c ie n c e , U n iv e r s ity o f Illin o is at Urbana-Champaign, at the conclusion of a study conducted by the school’s Library Research C en ter for t h e N a tio n a l E n d o w m e n t fo r th e Humanities. “W e used a sample o f nineteen libraries, large and sm all, sc a tte re d ov er th e U . S . , ” G old hor said. “O ne o f our major conclusions is that books in the hum anities constitute about 11 percent of all books in these libraries, 15 percent of all adult books, and 2 2 p ercent o f all adult nonfiction. “W e also attem pted to evaluate the quality of these holdings by checking a sample o f 6 ,4 0 0 ti­ tles against seven different lists o f recommended books. F ifty -tw o p e r c e n t o f all th e books ap­ peared in three or more o f these lists, 3 2 percent in one or two, and only 16 p ercent in none. This is a b e tte r record in term s o f quality than we have found in any o th e r s u b je c t a r e a w e’ve looked a t,” he said. “W e looked at four size groups, ranging from small libraries serving less than 2 5 ,0 0 0 to large libraries over 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 . T he most surprising thing to me is that the very small libraries have propor­ tio nately as many books in the h u m an ities as larger lib raries and th e ir quality is at least as good, maybe a little b e tte r,” Goldhor said. ■■ People PROFILES • G l e n n H . JO H N S O N J R . , has been named director o f the John D. Churchill Memorial L i­ brary at W estern New England C ollege, accord­ ing to an announcement made by academic vice- president Allan W . Bosch. Joh nson p rev iou sly d irected lib ra r ie s at the University o f Colorado, Colorado Springs center, and St. Mary’s College in Maryland. H e began his c a r e e r as library d ire cto r at the Colorado S ta te H is to r ic a l S o c ie ty in D e n v e r and also served in several capacities at the Boulder cam ­ pus library o f the University o f Colorado. Johnson earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the U niversity o f Colorado and a master’s degree in library science from the Uni­ versity o f D enver. H e is a m em b er o f the Special Libraries As­ sociation, the Society o f American Archivists, and a life m em ber o f the American Library Associa­ tion. Johnson, his wife Connie, and their son Samuel reside in Longmeadow, M assachusetts. • M E R L E N. B O Y L A N , fo rm e r d ir e c to r o f General Libraries at the U niversity o f Texas at Austin, has b e en named d irector o f libraries at the University o f W ashington, Se attle. H e suc­ ceeds Marion A. Milczewski, who is retiring after seventeen years as head librarian. As director o f General Libraries at the Univer­ sity o f T e x a s, Boylan was re s p o n sib le for the M ain L ib r a r y , U n d erg ra d u a te L ib r a r y , L atin American C ollection, Barker Texas History Col­ lection, Asian Collection, Middle East C ollection, and sixteen branch libraries. The G eneral Librar­ ies has a staff o f 4 2 0 and a collection in excess of 4 million volumes. A major activity was the plan­ ning and c o n s tru c tio n o f a new m ain lib rary building, the Perry-Castaneda Library, and four branch lib raries. D uring his ten u re both the 3 millionth and 4 millionth volumes w ere added to the collections. In 1975, the University o f Texas Library moved into the top ten largest academic libraries in the United States. Boylan was active in the implem entation o f automation in the librar­ ies and served on the board that founded the A M IG O S Bibliographic Council. At W ashington, he has assumed responsibility for the Main Library, Health S c ie n ce s Library, Undergraduate Library, East Asia C ollection, and sixteen branch libraries, with a staff o f 430 and a collection o f 3,2 3 6 ,9 4 4 . Boylan has served as director o f libraries at the University o f Massachusetts at A mherst, library manager for the Lawrence Liverm ore Laboratory of the U niversity o f California, and ch ie f librarian for th e N a tio n a l A e ro n a u tic s and Sp a ce Administration-Ames Research C en ter. In addi­ tion, he has held library positions at the General