ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 114 News from the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The A m e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y , W or­ cester, Massachusetts, has acquired a private col­ lection o f American book bindings from the estate of the late Michael Papantonio, a m ember of the society and a rare book dealer in New York City. The more than 1,000 books in the collection rep­ resent every period in the history o f American bookbinding from 1669 to 1876. T h e Papantonio co llectio n was exh ib ited in 1972 and 1973 at the American Antiquarian Soci­ ety, Pierpont Morgan Library, the University of Virginia, and Princeton and Cornell university li­ braries. The catalog of the exhibition has become a standard reference work for American bindings. • In F e bru ary M e r c y C o l l e g e , located in Dobbs Ferry, New York, purchased the 60,000- volume library o f R icker C ollege in M aine by submitting a high bid of $160,000. The Ricker Library is the third college library that M ercy College has purchased in the past year. Earlier it had purchased the 39,000-volume library of Bennett College and the 30,000-volume collection of Mt. St. Mary College. The three acquisitions bring the total holdings o f th e M e rcy C o lle g e L ib r a r ie s to 2 7 0 ,0 0 0 volumes. In a n n ou n cin g th e p u rc h a se , D r. D onald G rünew ald, president o f M ercy C o llege, said, “W e are constantly on the alert for opportunities to improve the quality and number of our hold­ ings beyond our regular annually budgeted ac­ quisition program.” • M c M a s t e r U n i v e r s i t y , Hamilton, Canada, will receive custody o f most o f the records of McClelland and Stewart, L td ., one of Canadas major publishing houses. The collection includes the files of Jack McClelland, the current head of the firm. • T h e works and working notes o f H olling Clancy Holling, writer and illustrator of books for c h ild re n and adults b ased on th e liv e s and legends of native Americans, have been donated to the Department of Special Collections of the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a a t L o s A n g e l e s (U C LA ) L ibrary by the w rite r’s w ife, L u cille W ebster Holling. The collection was initiated more than a decade ago, with the deposit of the first edition of T ree in th e T rail together with the research materials and manuscripts that preceded the actual publica­ tion of the book. Four years after the death in 1973 of the writer-illustrator, Mrs. Holling began the series of gifts that will eventually place all of Holling s works at the university. P a d d l e - t o - t h e S e a ‚ c o m p le te w ith o rig in a l watercolor paintings, drawings, designs, research notes, and letters, has joined T ree in th e T rail in the co llectio n . In addition, a nu m ber of first editions— including Rum Turn Tum m y, L ittle Big B y e-B y e, Minn o f th e M ississippi, Sea B ird , and P a g o o —are in the collection. • The library of the S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k (SUNY) C o l l e g e a t P u r c h a s e has been given the art library of the late Thomas B. Hess by Hess’ children. At the time of his death in July 1978, Thomas B. Hess was “Consultative Chairman” of the D e ­ partment o f Twentieth Century Art at the M et­ ropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He had been associated with A rt N ew s from 1946 to 1972, serving as the magazine’s editor from 1965 to 1972. T h e c o lle c tio n co m p rises m ore than 1 ,7 0 0 items, including both monographs and exhibition catalogs. Strong in contemporary materials, the library includes most areas of visual art and de­ sign. This bequest follows a 1975 gift from Hess of an extensive collection of little magazines. G RAN TS • T h e U n iv e r sity o f C h ic a g o L ib ra ry was among the twenty libraries that received grants from the Department o f Health, Education and W elfare under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act. Chicago will use its grant of $250,000 for two projects. The first is “to maintain the strength of library resources for original investigation of the history of civilization and of contemporary culture from Eastern Europe and the Middle East east­ ward to Japan.” The project will focus largely on a c q u i s i t i o n s a n d p r o c e s s i n g . The second project will be to improve access to the currently received scientific, technical, and medical serials of the University of Chicago L i­ brary, the John C rerar Library, and the C enter for Research Libraries. This project will entail the construction o f a m a c h i n e - r e a d a b l e d a t a b a s e for an estimated 2 1 ,0 3 0 unique titles. Upon completion of the data base, each o f the three libraries will be able to identify gaps in its own collections that are covered in the collections of the other participating libraries, and they will be able to identify common deficiencies that need to be filled. In addition, they will be able to set up a pro­ gram of direct referral o f interlibrary loan and photocopy requests. T he bibliographic records created and the collections rep resented in the data base will becom e available to the developing national serials data base and could constitute a p rin c ip a l se g m e n t o f a n atio n al p e rio d ica ls system. 115 M EETIN GS A pril 2 8 - M ay 3 : T he third annual National In ­ formation Conference & Exposition, sponsored by th e In fo rm a tio n Industry A ssociation, w ill be held in Washington, D .C ., at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. The them e o f the conference will be “Manag­ ing Your Information Crisis … A Multidiscipli­ nary Approach.” Obtain registration information by contacting N IC E Headquarters, 316 Pennsyl­ vania A v e., S E , S u ite 5 0 2 , W ash in g ton , D C 20003; (202) 5 4 4 -1 9 6 9 . M ay 3 -4 : P ro ject L O E X , the national academic library clearinghouse located at Eastern Michigan U niv ersity ’s C e n te r o f E ducation al R esou rces, will sponsor the Ninth Annual Conference on L i­ brary O rientation/Instruction for Academic L i­ braries. T he conferen ce will be held on the Eastern M ichigan U n iv ersity cam pus and will featu re speakers, discussions, and working sessions fo­ cused on the topic o f keeping library user educa­ tion programs in step with academic curriculum reform. Registration is limited and by brochure only. C o ntact Carolyn K irkend all, D ire c to r, P ro je ct L O E X , C en ter o f Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, to re ­ ceive a brochure. M ay 1 8 - 1 9 : T h e University of Chicago G radu­ ate L ib ra ry School will hold its fortieth annual conference at the Palmer House in Chicago. The co n fe re n ce will com m em o rate th e fiftieth an ­ niversary of the Graduate Library School. The them e of the conference will be “T h e Role of Libraries in the Growth o f Know ledge.” Six sp eakers w ill address topics p e r tin e n t to this them e: Don R. Swanson, dean of the Graduate Library School, U niversity o f Chicago; Karl J. W ein tra u b , dean, D ivision o f H um anities and professor o f history, University o f Chicago; Pat­ rick Wilson, professor, School o f Library and In­ fo rm a tio n S tu d ie s , U n iv e r s ity o f C a lifo rn ia , Berkeley; E ugene Garfield, president, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia; Gordon R. W illiam s, d irector, C en te r for Research L i­ b r a r ie s , C h ic a g o ; C a rlo s C u a d ra , p r e s id e n t, Cuadra Associates, In c., and adjunct professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Sci­ ence, University o f California, Los Angeles. T he cost o f the conference is $40 ($35 if re­ ceived before April 10). The fee covers registra­ tion and a copy o f the proceedings. In terested p e r so n s may c o n ta c t th e G ra d u a te L ib ra ry School, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th S t., Chicago, IL 60637. M ay 2 4 -2 6 : T he O ntario Association o f L ib rary Technicians/Association des Bibliotechniciens de l’O ntario will hold its sixth annual conference at New C o lleg e, U niversity o f Toronto , Toronto, Ontario. T he host of the conference will be the Toronto Area Regional Branch. F or further information write OALT-ABO Sixth Annual C o nferen ce, P. O. Box 527, Thornhill, Ontario, L 3T 4A2, Canada. J u n e 17-22: The University of California at Los Angeles will host the Twenty-fourth Sem inar on the A cq u isitio n o f L a tin A m e rica n M a te ria ls (SA L A L M ). T h e sem in a r w ill b e held at th e Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. T he them e of the m eeting will be “Caribbean R e s e a r c h and R e s o u r c e s in E u r o p e and th e A m e r ic a s .” R e g is tra tio n fe e s w ill b e $ 2 0 for m embers, $30 for nonmembers. Students will be admitted free. F o r further information, contact: Anne H. Jo r­ dan, E x e c u tiv e S e c r e ta r y , S A L A L M , B enso n Latin A m erican C o lle ctio n , T h e U niversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, T X 78712. J u l y 1 - 4 : The A m erican Association o f Law L ib raries will hold its annual conference at the Fairm ont H otel, San Francisco, California. F o r information, contact: the American Association of Law Libraries, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. M ISCELLANY • T h e G e o r g e W a s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y L i­ brary, Washington, D .C ., has opened a Televi­ sion News Study Facility that provides playback facilities and reference services for videotapes of television news broadcasts. The facility, which is supervised by the lib rary ’s audiovisual d ep art­ m ent, featu res a sev enty -fou r-seat audiovisual classroom with large-screen projection as well as playback units for individual and small group viewing in both open and closed areas. T he library’s Vanderbilt Television News Ar­ chive Collection holds videotapes of all the week­ day evening news programs o f the three major networks broadcast since 1968. It also contains special network broadcasts such as the W atergate h e a rin g s and is now ad ding v id e o ta p e s o f w eekend netw ork news program s and sp ecial news events. The Television News Study Facility also pro­ vides reference and referral service to other tele­ vision news collections, including those held by the National Archives; the C B S , N BC , and ABC Archives; and the Museum of Broadcasting. ■■ Salary and Benefit Surveys Wanted T h e ALA LAMA PAS Com m ittee on E co­ nomic Status, W elfare, and Fringe Benefits is seeking to publish a listing of all salary and benefit surveys com pleted within the past five years. I f you are aware o f any survey(s) in th ese areas, please w rite E la in e Je n n e ric h , Moody Library, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76703. A ll 25 Volumes Are Available For Immediate Delivery HERE IS SUBJECT-AND-AUTHOR ACCESS TO MORE THAN 400,000 ARTICLES IN THE BACKFILES OF 531 JOURNALS IN h i s t o r y , p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e a n d s o c i o l o g y . CRIS — HISTORY, 1838-1974, in eleven hardcover volumes. More than 180,000 articles from the Dackfiles of 234 History Journals in the English language have been indexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes. Articles were assigned to one or more of 336 hierarchical subject categories, and then computer sorted by keyword under each category to give in-depth specificity. c r i s — p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e , 1886-1974, in eight hardcover volumes. This set contains 6 cumulative subject volumes and 2 cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Adm inistration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. Articles were assigned to one or more of 95 hierarchical subject categories. CRIS — SOCIOLOGY, 1895-1974, in six hardcover volumes. From the retrospective collections of 118 English Language Sociology journals, some 110,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumulative author volume. Articles were assigned to one or more of 87 hierarchical subject categories. Each Volume Contains an “ Introduction & User’s Guide” By Evan Farber AND NOW… more than 1 m illion BOOK REVIEWS which appeared in 472 of these same journals have been indexed by author and title in a separate fifteen-volum e CRIS Index Set, COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, 1886-1974 Evan Farber, Librarian of Earlham College and author of the standard reference work, Classified List of Periodicals for the College Library, is the chief com piler of this new set. As he points out, "O u r set will complement existing indexes o f book reviews because the majority of its entries have never been indexed anywhere but in the ir own journals. “Book Review Digest, fo r instance, is retrospective to 1905 but quite weak in its coverage of scholarly journals. "Meanwhile, the new indexes which recently began to cover large numbers of scholarly journals are not retrospective. “ Therefore, this substanlial gap in coverage can only be filled by an Index which is both retrospective and more thorough in its coverage of scholarly journals — namely, our Combined Retrospective Index." USE TH E CO UPO N ON TH E R IG H T TO ORDER TH IS SET AND T H E OTH ER CRIS INDEXES SEND FOR FREE BROCHURES LISTING THE JOURNAL COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS CRIS, THE REFERENCE PREFERENCE OF THE RESEARCH MAJORITY, … is now complete and at work in hundreds of undergraduate libraries in the United States and overseas. 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