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Publications
NO TIC ES

• T h e  Se m in a r on th e  A cq u isition o f L atin 
Am erican L ib rary  M aterials has re c e n tly  p u b ­
lished the F in a l R e p o rt a n d  W o r k in g  P a p e r s of 
the twenty-first seminar under the title T w en ty  
Y ears o f  L a tin  A m eric a n  L ib r a r ia n s h ip ‚ edited by 
Louella Vine W etherbee and Anne H. Jordan.

T he twenty-first seminar (which m et at Indiana 
University) reviewed SA LA LM ’s contributions to 
Latin American librarianship and explored new 
areas of interest. T he F in a l R e p o rt a n d  W o r k in g  
P a p ers includes papers on the acquisition o f ma­
terials from specific countries or areas o f Latin 
A m erica and news updates on c u rre n t b ib lio ­
graphic p ro jects. T h e publication also contains 
reports on the developm ent o f special libraries in 
central banks, on the new information technolo­
gies, and on Chicano librarianship.

T h is  p u b lica tio n  is a v a ila b le  from  N ation al 
E ducational L aboratory P u blish ers, I n c ., P .O . 
Box 1003, Austin, T X  78767, for $21, including 
postage and handling.

• T hirty-one rep resentative examples o f A RL 
institutions’ fringe benefit programs, general and 
sabbatical leave policies, and university education 
programs are provided in the January 1979 SP E C  
Kit on F rin g e B en efits in A R L  L ib r a r ie s  (# 5 0 ). A 
review of fringe benefit literature from ninety-one 
A RL institutions shows that in the library, as in 
the university as a whole, fringe benefits are an 
important part of an organization’s efforts to re ­
cruit and retain qualified staff.

T h e eighty-nine-page S P E C  Kit # 5 0  on fringe 
benefits is available for $ 7 .5 0  to A RL m embers 
and SP E C  subscribers and $15 to all others from: 
Office of M anagement Studies, Association o f R e­
search  L ib ra rie s , 1527 New H am p shire A v e., 
NW, W ashington, D C  20036.

• T h e  L ib r a r y  o f C o n g re s s has p u b lis h e d  
K e n y a : A S u b je c t  G u id e to O ffic ia l P u b lica tio n s. 
This new su bject bibliography covers official pub­
lications o f Kenya for the period 1886 to 1975 is­
sued by the Republic of Kenya, Kenya Colony 
and P rotectorate, the E ast Africa P rotecto rate, 
G reat Britain and the East African Community, 
and its predecessors.

Com piled by John B. Howell o f the African 
Se ctio n , African and M iddle E astern D ivision, 
the 423-page guide contains 3 ,0 4 8  entries. There 
is a detailed index of personal names, corporate 
b o d ies, and sp e cific s u b je c ts , follow ed by an 
index to British command papers and series on 
microfilm.

K en y a : S u b je c t G u id e to O ffic ia l P u b lica tio n s 
(ISB N  0-84 4 4 -0 2 6 2 -1 ) is available by mail from 
the S u p e rin te n d e n t o f D o cu m en ts, U .S . G ov­

ernm ent Printing Office, W ashington, D C  20402, 
for $10 ($ 1 2 .5 0  for foreign orders), postage in ­
cluded (Stock No. 030-001-00073-7).

• S o u t h  A s ia  L i b r a r y  N o t e s  a n d  Q u e r i e s  
(SALNAQ) is a new qu arterly n e w sletter p u b­
lis h e d  by  th e  C o m m itte e  on L ib r a r ie s  and 
Documentation of the South Asian Council of the 
Association for Asian Studies. T h e purpose of the 
new sletter is to provide a vehicle for exchange 
and ongoing dialogue among persons interested 
in resources and research concerning the subcon­
tinent, south of the Himalayan Range, which con­
tains In dia, Pakistan , B an g lad esh , N ep al, Sri 
Lanka, and Bhutan. Subscription rates are $5 for 
regular subscriptions and $3 for students. SA L­
NAQ may be ordered from the Association for 
Asian S tu d ies, U n iv ersity  o f C hicago L ib rary , 
Rm. 560, 1100 E . 57th S t., Chicago, I L  60637.

• Zanzibar’s Afro-Shirazi Party is the subject of 
a new twenty-page bibliography published by the 
Library o f Congress in its Maktaba Afrikana S e ­
ries (ISSN  0146-8553). T h e Afro-Shirazi Party was 
the political authority in the islands o f Zanzibar 
and Pem ba from January 12, 1964, until February 
5, 1977, w hen it m erged with the Tanganyika 
African N ational U nio n, the p o litic a l party o f 
m ain land  T a n z a n ia , to  form  th e  C h am a ch a

Call for Papers: 
Library History Seminar

Library History Sem inar V I, sponsored by 
the J o u r n a l o f  L ib r a r y  H isto ry , will be held 
in March 1980 in Austin, Texas. T he confer­
e n c e , w hose th e m e  will b e  “ L ib ra rie s and 
C u lt u r e ,” w ill e x p lo r e  th e  r o le  and s ig ­
nificance of graphic records in society.

Topics o f papers may include, but are not 
lim ited to, biographical studies; institutional 
developm ent; collecting efforts; cultural and 
socioeconom ic environm ents; literacy, read­
ing, and lib raries; history o f the profession; 
philosophy o f lib rarian sh ip ; b ib liograp hical 
history; com parative lib rarianship ; research 
m ethods; sources for research; and teaching 
methods.

A prospectus o f not more than 500 words 
and a vita should b e sent by Ju n e 15, 1979, to 
Dr. Donald G. Davis, J r ., Editor, Journal of 
Library History, Graduate School o f Library 
S c ie n c e , U niversity o f Texas at Austin, Box 
7576, University Station, Austin, T X  78712.

Papers selected for presentation at the sem ­
inar will be published by the U niversity of 
Texas Press.



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Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. Z a n z ibar's 
A fro -S h ira zi P a rty ‚ 1957—1977: A B ib lio g r a p h y  is
available free upon request from the African Sec­
tion, African and Middle Eastern Division, L i­
brary of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

RECEIVED

(Selected items will be reviewed in forthcom­
ing issues of C o lleg e 6- R esearch  L ib r a r ie s .)

• The cultural life of the U .S. has been en­
riched by the achievements of two men who es­
caped from the European Holocaust of the late 
1930s. Two recent books record their work.

H. P. Kraus’ autobiography, A R a re B o o k  Saga 
(G. P. Putnam, 1978, $15) presents an account of
the life of this distinguished bookdealer.

Fred Fehl s On B road w a y presents a major col­
lection of performance photographs by that emi­
nent theater photographer (Univ. of Texas Pr., 
1978, $24.95).

The photographs in the volume are from the 
Fred Fehl Collection of the Hoblitzelle Theatre 
Arts Library in the Humanities Research Center
of the University of Texas at Austin. The accom­
panying text by William and Jane Stott includes 
material from numerous unpublished interviews 
conducted for the Oral History Project on the 
Performing Arts at Southern Methodist Univer­
sity.

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• Eugene B. and Ruth L. Jackson s In du strial 
Inform ation  Systems: A M anual f o r  H ig h er M an­
a g e m e n t s  a n d  T h e i r  I n f o r m a t i o n  O f f i c e r /  
L ib r a r ia n  A s s o c ia tes (Dowden, Hutchinson & 
Ross, 1978, $35, distributed by Academic Press) 
is designed as a guide to help managers in using 
information effectively to achieve corporate goals. 
A special feature of the volume is the chapter 
that describes the information resources of 311 of 
the F ortu n e 500 companies.

• A new volum e in th e  JA I P ress se r ie s , 
Foundations in Library and Information Science, 
is C ost A n alysis o f  L ib r a r y  F u n ction s: A T otal 
System A p p r o a c h , by Betty Jo Mitchell, Norman 
E . Tanis, and Jack Jaffe (California State Univer­
sity, Northridge, 1978, $22.50). As Tanis points 
out in the introduction, the volume reports “a 
comprehensive study of the costs of performing 
library tasks” and concludes with the belief that 
the program developed at Northridge “can be 
used not only for in-house cost measurement, but 
also for the comparison of costs among libraries as 
well.”

• The Library of Congress has begun a series 
of Network Planning Papers. The first four in­
clude A N ationw ide L ocation  D ata B ase a n d  S er­
vice, by Butler Associates o f Los Altos, California; 
A G lossary f o r  L ib ra r y  N etw orking, prepared by 
Dataflow Systems, Inc.; Initial C o n sid eratio n s f o r  
a N a tio n w id e  D ata B a s e , prepared by Edwin 
Buchinski o f the National Library of Canada; and 
M essag e D eliv e ry  System  f o r  th e N a tio n a l L i­
b ra r y  an d  In fo rm ation  S ervice N etw ork: G en era l 
R equ irem en ts, prepared by the Network Techni­
cal Architecture Group.

The papers are available on request from the 
Customer Services Section, Cataloging Distribu­
tion Service, Library of Congress, Washington, 
DC 20541.

• A C o m p a n io n  to C a lifo r n ia , by Jam es D. 
Hart, U C ’s Bancroft L ibrary d irecto r (Oxford 
Univ Pr., 1978, $22.50), presents in one alphabet 
entries on California ranging from abalone, a state 
d e lica cy , to Zukor, A dolph, a film ind ustry 
pioneer.

• C harles Bensin ger’s T h e V id eo  G u id e (2d 
ed., Video-Info Publications, 1979, $14.95) is de­
signed for the nonprofessional and describes the 
many kinds of video equipment that have ap­
peared. Numerous sketches and photographs of 
equipment discussed are included. Order from 
E sselte Video, In c., O rder C en ter D ep t. 100, 
P.O. Box 978, Edison, NJ 09917. (Enclose $.75 
for postage.)

Esselte Video has also issued under the title, 
The V ideolog, catalogs of programs available on 
videotape: P rogram s f o r  G e n era l In terest a n d  E n ­
tertainm ent (1979 ed., $20), P rogram s f o r  Busi­
ness an d  Industry (1979 ed., $35), and Program s 
f o r  th e H ealth S ciences (1979 ed., $35).

• New volumes in the Reader Series in Librar­
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H andling S e rv ic e s , E ng lew o od , C o lo rad o , are 
B illy  R. W ilkinson s R e a d e r  in  U n d e r g r a d u a t e  
L i b r a r i e s  (1 9 7 8 , $20) and Paul A. W in c k le r ’s 
R e a d e r  in  t h e  H is t o r y  o f  B o o k s  a n d  P rin tin g  
(1978, $22).

• Scarecrow  Press continues its G reat Bibliog­
raphers Series with volume 4 devoted to D ou g las 
C . M c M u rtrie: B ib l i o g r a p h e r  a n d  H is to r ia n  o f  
P rin tin g  (1979, $9). Scott B ru n tjen  and M elissa 
L. Young are the com pilers of the volume.

• New guides to library resources outside the 
U .S . are Stephen R oberts, Alan C ooper, and L es­
ley G ild er s R e s e a r c h  L ib r a r ie s  a n d  C o lle c tio n s in 
th e  U n ited  K in g d o m  (Sh o e S trin g  P ress, 1978, 
$ 2 5 ) and th e  s e c o n d  e d itio n  o f  R ic h a rd  C . 
Lewanski’s S u b je c t C o lle c tio n s  in E u r o p e a n  L i­
b r a r ie s  (Bowker, 1978, $52.50).

• T elev is io n , th e B o o k , a n d  th e C la s sr o o m  p re ­
sents the proceedings of a national sem inar held 
at the Library o f Congress in April 1978 and co­
sponsored by the library’s C e n te r for the Book 
and the U .S . Office o f Education.

T he sem inar brought together more than forty 
educators, publishers, governm ent officials, and 
representatives o f the television and comm unica­
tions industry to discuss effective ways to integrate 
television, the book, and the printed word within 
the educational process. M ortim er J . Adler and 
Frank Stanton w ere keynote speakers.

Available at $ 4 .9 5  from the Inform ation Office, 
Library o f Congress, W ashington, D C  20540.

• T h e Association for Educational Comm unica­
tions and Technology has published L ea r n in g  via 
T elec o m m u n ic a tio n s, a selection of thirty-two ar­
tic le s from th e jo u rn a l A u d io v is u a l In s t r u c t io n  
(1978, $8.95).

A E C T  has also p u blished  T h e A rt o f  M ulti- 
I m a g e  (1978, $ 1 7 .5 0 ), which covers production 
te c h n iq u e s  for m u lti-im a g e p r e s e n ta tio n s , r e ­
search in multi-image, and examples o f its use.

• G ale R esearch  has begu n pu blication o f a 
multivolume D ic tio n a r y  o f  L it e r a r y  B io g r a p h y ‚ 
with volum e 1, T h e  A m e r ic a n  R e n a is s a n c e  in 
N ew  E n g la n d , ed ited  by Jo e l M yerson (1 9 7 8 , 
$35), and volume 2, A m e r ic a n  N o v e lis ts S in c e  
W o r ld  W a r  I I , edited by Jeffrey Helterm an and 
Richard Laym an. T h r e e  additional volumes are 
projected.

• W h o  W as W h o  in th e T h e a tr e , 1 9 1 2 -1 9 7 6  (4 
vols., G ale Research, 1978, $140) is a composite 
work, based on the fifteen editions o f biographical 
data originally p u blished in W h o ’s W h o  in t h e  
T h e a t r e . T h is new  guide in clu d e s a rtic le s on 
4 ,1 0 0  individuals active in the English-speaking 
theater during the past half-century.

• A new service beginning in January 1978 is 
th e  B B C  6  p . m .  R a d i o  N e w s . N e w s r e a d e r s ’ 
typescripts are published on m icrofiche and is­
sued quarterly. T hey are indexed in a quarterly 
printed index. Annual subscription cost for the 
service and index is $475 ($515 includes a bound 
annual index).

O th er services available are m irofiche o f the 
H o m e S e r v ic e  N in e O’Clock N ew s, 1939-1945 and 
m icrofiche catalogs of radio and television trans­
m itted drama. D istributed in the U .S . by Som er­
s e t H o u s e , 4 1 7  M a itla n d  A v e ., T e a n e c k , N J 
07666.

• An I n d e x  to  A r tic les on  P h o to g r a p h y  1977 
(Visual Stu dies W orkshop, 1978, $24) is a new 
annual guide to articles on the uses and practices 
o f photography selected  from more than eighty 
cu rre n t p eriodicals. T e ch n ica l a rticles and dis­
c u ssio n s o f e q u ip m e n t a re  fo r th e  m ost p art 
exclu ded. Available from Visual Stu dies W ork­
shop, 31 Prince S t., R ochester, NY 14607.

• A new periodical guide, R u n n er  s In d e x , in­
cludes articles from thirty-five journals related to 
running. T h e articles listed are arranged by au­
thor and by su bject, and the guide is to be issued 
s e m ia n n u a lly , w ith th e  first issu e  c o v e r in g  
January-June 1978.

I t  is edited by Joseph C. Mancuso and is avail­
able at $20 p er year, plus $ 1 .5 0  for postage ($26 
Canada and foreign) from R u nn er’s In dex, Box 
5183, Albany, NY 12205. ■■

M ICR O FILM  SER V IC E

T h e  New E n g lan d  D o cu m e n t C o n serv a tio n  
C e n te r (N E D C C ), Andover, M assachusetts, has 
established a microfilm service. T he ob jective of 
the new service will be to provide m icrofilming of 
the highest techn ical quality to m eet the chal­
lenges posed by difficult-to-film historical m ate­
rials such as m anuscripts and handw ritten r e c ­
ord s. T h e  m a jo r e q u ip m e n t is in p la c e , and 
N E D C C  is now accepting work from clients.

A grant from the National Historical Publica­
tions and R ecords Com m ission provided initial 
funding for the new service. It is expected to b e ­
com e self-supporting during 1979. T h e service 
has already com p leted  the filming o f th e  town 
records o f Northfield, M assachusetts, the records 
of M aine parish churches, and four volumes of 
the B o u r n e P io n e e r ; and it has done a test filming 
of the papers o f W . E . B. Dubois.

N E D C C ’s microfilm service provides an alter­
native to commercial services. Com m ercial copy­
ing is an almost com pletely mechanical process. 
B ut historical records frequently suffer from faded 
ink, stained pages, and b rittle paper. T he filming 
o f su ch r e c o r d s  r e q u ir e s  sp e c ia l te c h n iq u e s . 
Moreover, editorial judgm ent is required for the 
proper arrangem ent o f historical records on film.

At N E D C C , Andrew Raymond, a trained his­
torian and archivist, supervises the preparation of 
all records for filming. Donald Linne, a graduate 
o f the R och ester Institute o f Technology, and a 
specialist in photo processing, coordinates techni­
cal services. ■■