ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 35 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company of Cleveland, Ohio, which has operated gold and iron ore mines in Brazil since the early nineteenth century, recently gave its business records from 1830 to 1960 to the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f T e x a s at Austin. Materials included in the gift have been appraised at $140,000, according to Harold Billings, associate director for collection development in the UT General Libraries. “The St. John d’el Rey archives include more than a million manuscript pages,” says Laura Gutierrez-Witt, head librarian of the Latin American Collection. “It will double the manu­ script holdings of the collection. Of special im­ portance to researchers will be the complete collection of the company’s annual reports from 1830, the demographic records kept by the company and photograph albums.” The historical, economic, and social data in the archives also include mining and geological reports, correspondence, land deeds, and em­ ployee records. Dr. Richard Graham, UT pro­ fessor of Brazilian history, commenting on the material, says, “The fascinating history of the St. John d’el Rey Mining Company is recorded in this set of documents. Aside from the pri­ mary importance of the materials for economic and business history, they also will be used ex­ tensively by historians of Brazilian society.” • The U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a has been given one of the two known copies of an impor­ tant revolutionary period document that was among the forerunners of the Declaration of Independence. The rare broadside, a large, sin­ gle printed sheet, joins two other revolutionary documents in the university’s Alderman Li­ brary. It was presented by Rea E. Hopper of Los Angeles, a descendent of George Mason, a Virginia statesman who drafted part of the state’s constitution and all of the renowned Virginia Declaration of Rights. The three documents, which trace colonial leaders’ thoughts and events in the spring and late summer of 1774, will be part of a library exhibition next year on the American Revolu­ tion: 1763-1783. “The University is the only place in the United States where you can see these three original documents,” according to William H. Runge, curator of the McGregor Library. The historic broadside committed Virginians to bring economic pressure on Great Britain for the repeal of acts passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. Known as the Virginia Con­ vention Resolution and Association, the broad­ side was passed by delegates to the Virginia Convention of August 1-6, 1774, at the risk of severely endangering their tobacco economy. Among the signers were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Peyton Ran­ dolph, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Charles Carter, and David Mason. The broadside was printed by a woman, Clementina Rind, printer of Williamsburg’s “Virginia Gazette,” who took over the printing business after her husband’s death. Washington delivered the text to her and paid twelve shil­ lings for printing it. Although hundreds of copies were printed, Runge said the only other surviving copy can be found at the Public Rec­ ord Office in London. In addition to the August broadside, the Alderman Library collection con­ tains a copy of the “Virginia Association of May 27” and Jefferson’s “Summary View of the Rights of British America.” • Self-expression in visual form is one of t characteristics which distinguishes man from other species of higher animals. The diverse ex­ pression of this human experience through time and space is well revealed in the recent gift to the U n i v e r s i t y o f M i s s o u r i — S t . L o u i s L i­ brary, by William N. Eisendrath, Jr., of his ex­ tensive personal collection of art books and cat­ alogs. The collection, consisting of some 700 books and monographs, 2,770 major exhibit catalogs, and 1,800 minor catalogs and pamph­ lets, is especially strong in modern and con­ temporary art and contains numerous exhibit catalogs of minor artists. For some of these artists, this listing may be the only significant documentation of their work. In addition to this concentration on the modern era, there are key works in almost all centuries and geograph­ ic areas, including prehistoric Japanese paint­ ing. Because of its special richness in exhibit catalogs, many of which may be unique in the St. Louis area, this collection will be a valuable resource for scholars in the metropolitan area. Mr. Eisendrath has had a long and varied career in business and in the art world. He has served the St. Louis Art Museum as assistant director for nine years, at various times as act­ ing director. He has been assistant professor of art, and director of Washington University Gal­ lery of Arts and of the University Collections at Washington University. For the past several years he has served as Special Bibliographer in the Thomas Jefferson Library at UMSL, where he has concentrated his efforts on several projects he 36 in collection development in the fields of art history, English, and history. • The library of the Institute of Cisterc Studies at W e s t e r n M i c h i g a n U n i v e r s i t y has received an indefinite loan of the entire Abbot Obrecht collection of manuscripts and incu­ nabula from the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsema ni at Trappist, Kentucky. The collection in­ cludes fifty-seven incunabula dating from 1464 and forty-three manuscripts, the earliest of which was produced in the middle of the twelfth century. Some 500 pre-1800 imprints are also included in the collection. The subject coverage of the collection match­ es that of the institute’s general collection: monasticism, liturgy, and Western mysticism. The Abbot Obrecht collection is especially rich in manuscripts and early editions of Bernard of Clairvaux and in early Cistercian choir books. M E E T I N G S F e b r u a r y 16-20: OCLC W o r k s h o p . The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li­ brarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bib­ liographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ­ ualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be avail­ able as consultants and lecturers, via the uni­ versity’s telelecture capabilities. For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. See the January News for more informa­ tion. M a r c h 8-12: The L i b r a r y B i n d i n g I n s t i ­ t u t e C o n s e r v a t i o n W o r k s h o p will be held at the New England Document Conservation Center, located at Merrimack Textile Museum, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. George M. Cunha is director/conserva­ tor of the center, a nonprofit organization, and Robert C. Morrison, Jr., is director of educa­ tion. For further information contact Library Binding Institute, 50 Congress St., Suite 630, Boston, MA 02109; (617) 227-9614. See the January News for more information. M a r c h 10-12: The Information Science and ia Automation Division of the American Library Association announces a three-day institute on “ P r o c e s s i n g a n d A u t o m a t i o n a t t h e L i b r a r y n o f C o n g r e s s .” The conference, cosponsored by ISAD and LC, will be held at the Library of Congress and at the Old Town Holiday Inn in Alexandria, Virginia. The first day, March 10, will be devoted to tours of the Processing Department of the Li­ brary of Congress and the other two days will consist of institute sessions with LC staff mem­ bers as speakers. The institute has been designed to inform the registrant of the activities, operations, and fu­ ture plans of the LC Processing Department and its many functions. Among the topics to be covered will be the Order Division, the Nation­ al Bibliographic Service, the Automated Process Information File, the cataloging system, the au­ thority system, COMARC, CONSER, the Cata­ loging Distribution Service, and the MARC in­ put story. For registration information, contact Donald P. Hammer, Executive Secretary, Information Science and Automation Division, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; telephone (312) 944-6780. M a r c h 23-25: ASLIB in association with six European organizations will conduct EU RIM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI Inter­ national Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Nether­ lands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, ASLIB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PL, England. A p r i l 8-11: An I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r ­ e n c e o n A r t P e r i o d i c a l s , sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society of North America will be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Uni­ versity of Sussex. An exhibition of art period­ icals will be on display at the Victoria and Al­ bert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians. For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England. A p r i l 25-28: The thirteenth annual C l i n i c o n L i b r a r y A p p l i c a t i o n s o f D a t a P r o c e s s ­ i n g will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the Mini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of Li­ brary Automation.” In an era of double-digit inflation and re­ duced budgets, libraries are being forced to 37 examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved ser­ vice? When can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these questions and to describe the economics of spe­ cific library applications. J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Mini Hall, Univer­ sity of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The com­ plete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975. M ay 5-7: The annual meeting of the S o c i e t y o f S o u t h w e s t A r c h i v i s t s will be held in San Antonio, Texas. For further information, con­ tact Mr. Sam Sizer, Curator, Special Collec­ tions, University of Arkansas Library, Fayette­ ville, AR 72701. M ay 6-8: M idwestern A c a d e m i c L ibrari­ ans C onference (M A L C ) Twenty-first An­ nual Meeting, University of Northern Iowa Li­ brary, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Contact person: Douglas Hieber, Head of Circulation, Universi­ ty of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. M ay 9-21: The College of Library and Infor­ mation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual L i b r a r y A d 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 . Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems— public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school— from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, manage­ ment consultants, and lecturers drawn from uni­ versities, government, and consulting fields. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don­ aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, M D 20742. See the January News for more information. M ay 10-11: S y m p o s i u m o n t h e B o o k A r t s at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherry­ burn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (An­ vil Press and King Library Press), Lexington, Ky.; W illiam Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermak­ ing, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design. M ay 10-28: T y p o g r a p h i c W o r k s h o p , a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. For further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of L i­ brary Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486. M ay 13-15: Eastern Michigan University’s Center of Educational Resources has scheduled the sixth annual 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 f o r A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s on the EM U campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The theme of the conference will be “Library Instruction in the ’70s: A State of the Art.” The program will feature speakers, panels, discussions, and an exhibit of library instruction materials spon­ sored by Project LOEX. The registration fee is $55.00. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and students 38 are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to: Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librari­ an, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, M I 48197. M ay 14-15: Simmons School of Library Sci­ ence and the Committee on National Planning of Special Collections, Children’s Services D i­ vision, American Library Association are co­ sponsors of a S y m p o s i u m o n C h i l d r e n ’s L i t ­ e r a t u r e as a scholarly resource. Scholars from various disciplines, special collections librarians, and specialists in children’s literature will en­ gage in a two-day exchange on the diversity of research making use of children’s literature and on the implications of this research for collec­ tion development and organization. Children’s literature here is defined in its broad sense, en­ compassing its many forms and formats, i.e., book, periodical, boxed game, comics, phono- recording, motion pictures, etc. Researchers who will present an overview of their studies and findings include: Dr. R. Gor­ don Kelly on values and class structure in nine­ teenth-century American children’s periodicals; Dr. Fred Erisman on regionalism in nineteenth­ century American children’s books; Dr. Anne Scott McLeod on children’s literature and American culture in the early nineteenth cen­ tury; and Dr. Walter Savage on lost innocence in the American comic strip. Several specialists who will consider aspects of children’s literature collecting which influence and support scholar­ ly studies are: Dr. Frances Henne on the gaps and overlaps in collecting and the need for a national collection; Dr. James Fraser on the collection of foreign-language and ethnic minor­ ity publications; Frederick Bauer (American Antiquarian Society); and Gerald Gottlieb (Morgan Library) on eighteenth and nine­ teenth-century collections. Symposium participants will address the growing need for dialogue on and understanding of the researcher’s need for all types of children’s literature directed to many audiences. For further information contact: Dr. Timo­ thy W . Sineath, School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115. May 17-19: CUMREC, the College and Uni­ versity Machine Records Conference, will hold its twenty-first annual meeting at the Nether­ land Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati. Host organization will be SWORCC, the Southwestern Ohio Regional Computer Center operated by the University of Cincinnati and Miami University at Oxford as a consortium to provide computer services support to the aca­ demic and administrative functions of both uni­ versities and a number of other nonprofit orga­ nizations. CUMREC ’76 theme will be “Sharing-Key to the Future.” Papers by delegates will explore primarily three interest areas: data processing, admissions and records, and business or finan­ cial affairs. The conference is expected to at­ tract about 900 participants from 300 member institutions, public and private, varying widely in size. Information may be obtained from Robert R. Caster, SWORCC, Medical Services Build­ ing, 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267, telephone (513) 475-5069, or Jack Southard, Administrative Data Processing, Miami Univer­ sity, Oxford, OH 45056, telephone (513 ) 529- 5322. M ay 17-21: In conjunction with the Ad­ vanced Management Centre of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University, the School of Library Service is sponsoring a week- long S e m i n a r f o r L i b r a r i a n s i n M i d d l e - M a n a g e m e n t P o s i t i o n s at Dalhousie Univer­ sity. Registration will be limited to a maximum of twenty, and it is expected that those enroll­ ing for the seminar will be in middle manage­ ment positions in their libraries or information centres. The two main themes of the seminar will focus on “The Art of Communications” and “Leadership and Motivation.” A manager’s abil­ ity to communicate is a critical factor in his or her effectiveness. The aim of the seminar will be to sharpen that ability and improve inter­ personal skills by providing solid theory and a series of practical problem-solving exercises. Leadership ability is the most sought after skill by management. The seminar will be an inten­ sive, practical, “how to” program for improving leadership skills, to identify each individual’s own style of leadership, and to learn how to get more productive results from subordinates. The seminar leader will be Professor John Dougall, director of the Advanced Management N e w Jersey C uts B ack After sustaining a 50 percent cut in its book budget for fiscal ’75-’76 at Trenton ( N .J.) State College, fourteen out of twenty-one librarians have been given blanket notices of nonretention. The loss of the librarians, some with more than nine years service, will result in massive cutbacks in programs, services, weekend, and evening hours. New Jersey librarians have been unsuccessful in regaining their faculty status which was unilaterally re­ moved in 1970. Some indexes to the journal literature cover some of the social sciences disciplines… A few concentrate on one discipline, but Only SSCIMT covers all the major disciplines in the social sciences. The S o c ia l S cie n ce s C itation Index (SSC I) p ro vid e s the kind of co verage you need fo r d o in g in -d e p th searches of the jo u rn a l literature. It covers every e dito ria l item in over 1,400 leading so cia l s cien ces jo u rn a ls in fie ld s rangin g from a n th ro p o lo g y to urban p lann ing. Plus it se le c tiv e ly in ­ dexes o ver 1,200 m ore jo u rn a ls from the natural, physical and b io ­ m ed ica l s cie n ces fo r a rticle s relevant to the social sciences. Because it is m u ltid is c ip lin a ry , the SSCI d oes the w o rk of several d is c i­ p lin e -o rie n te d indexes. A sing le lo o k ­ up in the SSCI gives you a cce ss to the literature o f o ver 50 m a jo r s p e ­ cialties. In all, nearly 85,000 item s are ind exed each year. Easy to use, the SSCI offers several in d e x in g a p p ro a ch e s so you can q u ic k ly find p e rtin e n t info rm a tio n . All you need to sta rt a search is an e a r­ lier p ap e r on yo ur to p ic , the nam e of a key a u th o r in the field, o r s im p ly a sin g le term related to y o u r su b je ct. There are no sp e cia lize d v o c a b u la rie s to learn. No c o m p le x cla ssifica tio n system s to master. Fact is, an ad can o n ly hint at w h a t’s in o u r u n c o n v e n tio n a lly o rgan ized SSCI fo r every user. A nd th e re 's no o the r la rg e -s c a le re tro s p e c tiv e index you can c o m p are it to. So if you still know little or n othing m ore a bo u t the SSCI than y o u ’ve read here, do y o u r­ self, yo ur sta ff and yo u r c lie n ts a favor: use the co up on . Get the full sto ry on the S o c ia l S cie nce s C itation ndex. See fo r y o u rs e lf if it d o e s n ’t belong in yo ur reference service. I 40 Centre, who will be assisted by other members of his staff. Professor Dougall directed the school’s very successful one-day workshop for alumni in December 1973. The cost for this seminar will be $75.00. This price will include lunch each day at the Dal­ housie Faculty Club and an opening reception there on the evening of Monday, May 17. Ac­ commodations have been reserved for delegates at Shirreff Hall on the Dalhousie Campus. The rates are single room $8 and double $10 per night. Any inquiries concerning the seminar please contact: Bernadette Coyle, Assistant to the D i­ rector for Continuing Education, c/o School of Library Service, Killam Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8. J u n e 9-12: The C h r i s t i a n L i b r a r i a n s ’ F e l ­ l o w s h i p will hold its twentieth annual confer­ ence at the Washington Bible College in Lan­ ham, Maryland. Further information may be secured from: William F. Abernathy, Columbia Bible College, P.O. Box 3122, Columbia, SC 29203. J u n e 21-25: The A m e r i c a n T h e o l o g i c a l L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its thirtieth an­ nual conference at the Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further in­ formation may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W. Schultz, University Librarian, W il­ frid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2C5. J u l y 1 2 - A u g u s t 6: The Graduate School of Librarianship at the University of Denver will be conducting a seminar entitled “ W e s t e r n S e m i n a r i n P u b l i s h i n g a n d E d i t i n g W o r k ­ s h o p .” Some of the leading publishers who will serve as lecturers are: Samuel S. Vaughan, pres­ ident, Doubleday Publishing Company; Mar­ garet McElderry, director, Children’s Books, Athenaeum Publishers; John P. Dessauer, au­ thor, Book Publishing, What it is, What it Does; Arnold Erhlich, editor-in-chief, Publishers’ Weekly; Peter Mayer, president, Avon Books; Andrew Nielly, president, John Wiley Publish­ ers; and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Noyes, owners, Chinook Book Store. Address further inquiries or applications to: Dean, Graduate School of Librarianship, Uni­ versity of Denver, Denver, CO 80210. J u l y 1 5 - 2 3 : “ L i b r a r y S e r v i c e s a n d T h e i r U s e r s ” will be the theme of the fourth Euro­ pean Library Summer Seminar sponsored by the Department of Library and Information 41 Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic. The keynote ad­ dress will be given by Mr. M. B. Line, director general, British Library Lending Division. Speakers from five European countries will join those from the United Kingdom to ensure an­ other fruitful opportunity to consider and dis­ cuss worldwide library and education problems in the European context. The program will include the following topics: “User Needs,” “Library Resources,” “L i­ brary Management,” “Information Retrieval,” and “Library Education.” The seminar will be fully residential and will be held at the I. M. Marsh College of Physical Education, which occupies an elevated twenty­ five-acre site on the southeast of the city of Liverpool. Accommodation will be in single study bedrooms, and ample recreational facili­ ties for swimming, tennis, etc., are available. Cost of the seminar is £.100 ($202.50). A daily rate can be quoted for delegates not able to attend the whole seminar. For further de­ tails contact: W . H. Snape, Course Director, Fourth European Library Summer Seminar, Department of Library and Information Stud­ ies, Liverpool Polytechnic, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool L2 2ER, England. J u l y 26-A u g u s t 20: The tenth annual Ar­ c h i v e s I n s t i t u t e at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experi­ ence in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives— records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised lab­ oratory work. Instructors are experienced ar­ chivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, ar­ rangement, description, reference services, rec­ ords control and scheduling, preservation tech­ niques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational ser­ vices, among others. Fee: $480 for those wish­ ing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $175 for noncredit partici­ pants. A certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the institute course. Housing is available at a modest rate. For further information write to: Archives Institute, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA 30334. O c t o b e r 28-29: The second annual L i b r a r y M i c r o f o r m C o n f e r e n c e will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. M I S C E L L A N Y • The C o u n c i l o f W i s c o n s i n L i b r a r i a n s has established an ad hoc committee whose charge is to bring about the realization of a statewide data base of serial holdings. The committee, chaired by Joseph A. Boissé, director of libraries at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, has set a six-year goal by which time the data base will include the holdings of all libraries in the state which agree to make their serial holdings available via IL L or for on-site use. In the first year it is hoped to input the holdings of the major academic and public libraries. The proj­ ect is aimed at improving the already outstand­ ing record of accomplishment of the Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Service and is being planned with the hope of tying in with the national CONSER effort. • The L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s and the N a­ t i o n a l C o m m i s s i o n o n L i b r a r i e s a n d I n f o r ­ m a t i o n S c i e n c e have announced the selection of an advisory committee and a principal inves­ tigator for the study of the role of the Library of Congress in the national network for libraries and information science. Lawrence F. Buck­ land, president of Inforonics, Inc., of Maynard, Massachusetts, will serve as principal investi­ gator for the study, funded by a contract award of $52,000 from NCLIS to the library; Hen­ riette Avram, chief of the library’s M ARC De­ velopment Office, is project director. The advisory committee members are W ar­ ren J. Haas, vice-president of information and services and university librarian, Columbia Uni­ versity; Frederick G. Kilgour, executive director of the Ohio Library Center; Samuel Lazerow, senior vice-president, Institute for Scientific In ­ formation; Lawrence G. Livingston, program officer, Council on Library Resources, Inc.; Maryan E. Reynolds, formerly Washington State librarian; James P. Riley, executive direc­ tor of the Federal Library Committee; and W illiam J. Welsh, director of the Processing Department, Library of Congress. Representing NCLIS on the committee are Commissioners Andrew A. Aines, Office of Science Informa­ tion, National Science Foundation; Joseph Becker, Becker and Hayes, Inc.; Carlos A. Cuadra, System Development Corporation; and NCLIS Executive Director Alphonse F. Trezza. The network study, announced in July, will review work in progress at the Library of Con­ gress, existing plans for a national bibliographic service, and the major characteristics of existing or planned networks. After the components of successful networks have been identified, investigators ACRL Membership December 31, 1975 ........................... 9,369 December 31, 1974 ............................ 13,697 December 31, 1973 ............................ 13,482 LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf —Government Documents Librarian o f the McKeldin Library o f the University o f Maryland. — Author o f the 52-page report “ Re­ gional Libraries and the Depository Library Act o f 1962” . -Secretary o f the Federal Documents Task Force of G O D O R T . — A uthor of “ The M onthly Catalog and Bibliographical Control o f U. S. Government Publications” (D rexel L ib r a ry Q uarterly, Jan.-Apr. 1974, pp. 79-105). “A landmark publication LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf review GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION Quoted below in its entirety is this of ARBA. It falls under the heading “ GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS UNITED STATES “ 102. B uchanan, W illia m W ., and E dn a M . K anely, comps. C um ulative Subject Index to the M o nthly Catalog o f United States Governm ent P ublications, 1900-1971. W ashington, C ar­ rollton Press, 1973 (in preparation). 15v. $900.00. L C 4-18088. IS B N 0-8408-0001-0. “A landmark publication in federal documents bibli­ ography. Private enterprise has again come to the rescue of the harried documents librarian to fill a serious void left by official government indexes and catalogs. Disregarding the inadequate bibliographic control over the full range of federal documents, par­ ticularly “non-GPO” publications, and the inadequate depth of indexing and subject analysis, the most serious drawback to using the Monthly Catalog and official indexes and catalogs published by the Government Printing Office has been the lack of timely cumula­ tions of the indexes or catalogs. The Document Catalog, which most documents librarians have used to search for documents published between 1895 and 1940, was actually a two-year cumulation of subject entries as well as entries for issuing agency and publi­ cation series. The Monthly Catalog has, since 1900, provided an annual index of the entries in the monthly issues (except for a 30-month period, January 1906 to June 1908). Two decennial indexes to the Monthly Catalog have been published by GPO: the 1941-1950 cumulation, and the 1951-1960 cumulation issued in 1968. A planned quinquennial cumulation for the years 1961-1965 is still in preparation. “ The lack of comprehensive cumulative indexes is a problem familiar to users of periodical indexes. In order to use the Monthly Catalog for exhaustive re­ search of a topic, or to find a work whose date of publication is unknown, one has to search month by month during the current year, then year by year to 1961, and through the two decennial issues to 1941. For earlier materials, most documents librarians prefer to use the biennial Document Catalog. “As the title indicates, this is primarily a cumulative “subject” index to the Monthly Catalog. It does not contain the following entries included in the source indexes: names of persons who were beneficiaries of individual “relief” measures, and “personal authors.” The latter entries have been cumulated by Edward Przebienda in two decennial and two quinquennial volumes covering the years 1940-1970 (published by Pierian Press as Cumulative Personal Author Indexes to the Monthly Catalog). However; the following types of entries contained in the source indexes have been cumulated: government agency “author” entries, and title entries. “ This cumulation represents a massive merging of entries in all previously published official cumulative indexes to the Monthly Catalog: 49 annual indexes (calendar years 1900-1905, 1935-1940, and 1961-1971; and fiscal years 1908/09-1933/34); the two decennial indexes; and one six-month index (July-December 1934). Original indexing was done for the 30 monthly issues that were not indexed, and the entries were merged. The compilers did not include the years 1895-1899, since the Monthly Catalog was not indexed The large st and m ost com prehensive sub­ ject index to U.S. Government publications ever produced. • fifteen volumes • 13,327 two-column pages • more than 2.5 million subject citations • offered w ith our 106 volume re p rin t edition o f the Monthly Catalog its e lf from 1895-1962. Included is the 30 volume “ Classes Added” Edition (for 1895- 1924) to which previously m issing Superintendent o f Documents Class Numbers were added under the supervision o f Mary Elizabeth Poole. All re p rin t volumes are specially bound and marked fo r easiest use w ith Cumulative Subject Index. Send fo r our fre e brochure on the Monthly Catalog Subject Ref­ erence System. It includes details o f our unique offer o f free " in te rim use” m icrofilm reels which can be used before (and after) complete sets of re p rin t volumes are delivered. Meanwhile, the Cumulative Subject Index may also be purchased in the Combined Reference Edition which, as ex­ plained on the coupon, includes the complete Monthly Catalog on M icrofilm . in federal documents bibliography” The CUMULATIVE SUBJECT IN D EX TO THE MONTHLY CATALOG OF U.S. 1900-1971 in the 1975 American Reference Books Annual. comprehensive review which appears on pages 47 and 48 of the 1975, Sixth Edition “General Reference Works, Government Publications, United States.” during this early period. In view of their commend­ able effort to close the 30-month gap mentioned, their failure to do original indexing for this earlier five-year period is a regrettable, but not serious, oversight. “Although this compilation will increase the use of the Monthly Catalog for the period 1900-1940 and will make searches more convenient and complete, it will not eliminate the need for the Document Catalog. This catalog was more comprehensive and includes many additional documents. The indexing was gen­ erally better and in greater depth. The Document Catalog is also a combined catalog-index. Arranged by subject, the entries provide complete bibliographic information, and the user must look only in one place and need not consult both index and catalog listings. In those cases in which the user can narrow the search to a short time frame, the Document Catalog might still be preferred. However, most documents reference work concerns more recent publications, and this cumulative index is warmly welcomed since it fills a serious gap for the period 1961-1971. “ Due to variations in terminology and indexing rules that have occurred over this span of 72 years, the The com plete 15-volume set is avail­ able for immediate delivery. Use this coupon to order today. compilers have been forced to make certain arbitrary, but eminently reasonable and practical, editorial de­ cisions. Subject headings appear intact under their original spellings. However, this problem has been alleviated by merging many see and see also references that had disappeared over the years. The problem of subject headings in both singular and plural form, often widely separated, has been solved by combining them under either one or the other heading. In the case of series and certain types of reports, chrono­ logical and numerical listings are used rather than straight alphabetical listings. “ The complete set is being published in attractive, folio-size, case-bound volumes. By the end of 1974, Volumes 1 through 11 (covering “A ” through “Pub”) have been published. The price may appear to be prohibitive, but when judged by its value in practical use, in time saved for librarians and other users of federal documents, and in the more exhaustive searches which it allows and encourages, the set is quite in­ expensive and is considered to be an outstanding bargain.” LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf 45 will be able to draw up guidelines to networks that will eventually be assimilated into the national scheme. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The sixth edition of The Directory of L i­ brary Reprographic Services is available. It has been expanded to include information about reprographic services of 450 libraries world­ wide. The book will include a microfiche ad­ hered to the inside back cover. The price is $9.95. (The last edition was published in 1973.) Order from: Microform Review, P.O. Box 1297, Weston, CT 06880. • A Bibliography on Library Automation covering the latter half of 1971 thru the first half of 1973 has been published by the In ­ formation Science and Automation Division of the American Library Association thru the ALA Publishing Services. The bibliography was com­ piled by Martha W . West, San Jose State Uni­ versity, as a part of the State of the Art I I pro­ ceedings of an ISAD institute held in 1973 in Las Vegas and is now available as a separate reprint from the ALA Order Department at $0.50 prepaid. The thirty-five-page bibliography is arranged by subject under headings such as “Bibliogra­ phies and Information Sources,” “MARC,” “Cataloging, Serials,” “Circulation,” “Automat­ ed Retrieval and Data Bases,” “Networks and Cooperation,” “College and University L i­ braries,” etc. Send order with payment to ALA Order De­ partment, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. • Acupuncture: A Research Bibliography, written by Allen Y. Lias (assistant head of technical services, New York University Medi­ cal Center Library), covers books, journal arti­ cles, and audiovisual materials both in English and in foreign languages from 1960 to early 1975. Also included are lists of periodicals on the subject of acupuncture and journal abbrevi­ ations as well as an author index. The purpose of this bibliography is to assist health profes­ sionals and others in acupuncture research. It should serve as an invaluable source of informa­ tion for individuals interested in this subject. The bibliography is available for $3.95 from: New York University Medical Center Library, Attn.: Catalog Dept., 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016. Make checks payable to the New York University Medical Center. • The Library Management Research Unit (L M R U ) at the University of Cambridge is carrying out a series of investigations into the price of current British academic books. The Pergamon Books D I R E C T From Pergamon! N e w S ta n d in g O rd er Plans O ffe r an A d d e d 1 2 '½% D isc o u n t W IN an A ll-E x p e n se - Paid T rip fo r T w o to Britain w orth $ 2 ,0 0 0 ; R u n n e r-u p prize $ 5 0 0 cash! D ra w in g to be held M a rc h 26, 1 976! In q u ire fo r D e ta ils : Mr. Otto Rapp Director of Sales P E R G A M O N P R E S S , Inc. Fairview Park Elm sford, N. Y . 1 0523 (914) 592 7700 Telex I3 7328 46 price information is based upon the compre­ hensive intake of current British books by the Cambridge University Library. The initial study, an analysis of 1974 mate­ rial, shows that the average academic book published in Great Britain at a price of £4.58 ($9.27) is nearly two and a half times the price of the average nonacademic book at £1.94 ($3.93). The most expensive subject areas for academic books are chemistry ( £ 9.46) $19.16, physics (£ 8 .1 6 ) $16.52, and botany (£8 .1 5 ) $16.50, followed by general biology (£7 .0 9 ) $14.36, medicine ( £6.43) $13.02, ge­ ology and meteorology (£6.27) $12.70, and mathematics (£6.03) $12.21. A report giving the detailed results for 1974 has been pub­ lished by the LMRU. J. L. Schofield and A. Cooper’s Average Prices of British Academ­ ic Books is available at 50p ($1.00) from LMRU, University Library, West Road, Cam­ bridge. The LMRU, which is funded by the British Library, is collecting further information on 1975 prices, which it hopes to publish in late May 1976. • A Union List of Theses and Dissertations on Microfilm in ten libraries in northern New York State is now available. The list locates 492 master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. Copies are $1.00 each. Order from North Coun­ try Reference and Research Resources Council, 73 Park St., Canton, NY 13617. • Three new publications dealing with li­ brary and university networking are being of­ fered as a package by the E R IC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Stanford School of Education. The central paper, Computerized Networks among Libraries and Universities: An Admin­ istrator’s Overview, by Dr. Lewis B. Mayhew, discusses examples of networks, factors in the development of networking, current issues in networking, and networking’s future. Included in its seventy-five pages are a glossary and ref­ erence section. As the author notes in his introduction: “The subject is approached from the point of view of the uninitiated educator, librarian or ad­ ministrator— competent in his or her own field, but unaware of the role or possibilities of com­ puterized networking and resource sharing. In much of the paper, an administrator’s eye has looked at the cost-effectiveness and realities of such networking. … The examples and ideas presented here are intended to serve as a tool and springboard … to further explore net­ working. … ” The second paper, published as a support for Mayhew’s publication, is A Selective Annotated Bibliography on Library Networking. Over 150 annotated entries on networking are included 47 in its twenty-five pages. Citations come from the E R IC collection and other sources. The third paper, Acronyms and Initialisms of Library Networks, is the second edition of an annotated listing of library networks across the nation, which includes references to further information on each network where possible. A feedback form for future editions is included. All three of these publications are being made available from Box E for $5.00. Individ­ ually, the Acronyms and Bibliography cost $1.50 each, and the Computerized Networks costs $3.00. Checks made payable to “Box E ” must be included with orders and sent to: Box E, School of Education, Stanford Universi­ ty, Stanford, CA 94305. Purchase orders can­ not be accepted. A discount of 15 percent is available for orders of over ten copies of any publication. These papers also will be available from the E R IC Document Reproduction Ser­ vice when their E D numbers are announced. ■ ■ People A P P O I N T M E N T S C l a i r e L . A n d r e w s — assistant reference li­ brarian, Rohrbach Library— K u t z t o w n S t a t e C o l l e g e , Pennsylvania. J o a n n e A r t z — reference librarian— G e o r g i a S o u t h e r n C o l l e g e , Statesboro. W e n d e l l B a r b o u r — head of readers’ ser­ vices— G e o r g i a S o u t h e r n C o l l e g e , States­ boro. C a r o l B o d i e n — periodicals/reference librar­ ian— B e m i d j i S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Minnesota. M e l i n d a D a v i s — cataloger— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. E l a i n e T. D r u e s e d o w —reference librarian, Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center—- O h e r l i n C o l l e g e , Ohio. H e r b e r t F o e r s t e l —head of the Engineer­ ing and Physical Science Library— U n i v e r s i t y O F M a r y l a n d , College Park. R a y m o n d F o s t e r — reference librarian— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. B r e n d a H e m i n g w a y —supervisor of recata­ loging— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. L i n d a H o l m e s —reader services librarian, School of Law Library— P a c e U n i v e r s i t y , W hite Plains, New York. K a r e n M a n d e r H u r d — resource center li­ brarian, School of Library Science— U n i v e r s i ­ t y o f W i s c o n s i n , Milwaukee. K a t h l e e n K l u e g e l —assistant librarian, ref­ erence— U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , Riverside. G r e c o r y K o s t e r —head of technical ser­ vices, School of Law Library— P a c e U n i v e r ­ s i t y , White Plains, New York. C h a r l o t t e L e v y — law librarian and associ­ ate professor of law, School of Law Library— P a c e U n i v e r s i t y , W hite Plains, New York. J o n L i n d g r e n —head, reference services— S t . L a w r e n c e U n i v e r s i t y , Canton, New York. H a r r y L l u l l — assistant to the head of the Undergraduate Library— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y ­ l a n d , College Park. A n d r e e L o w r y —head of the loan depart­ ment, McKeldin Library— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. P a t r i c i a L y n c h — acquisitions librarian, School of Law Library— P a c e U n i v e r s i t y , W hite Plains, New York. S u z a n n e M a s s o n n e a u — assistant director for technical services, Bailey Library— U n i v e r s i t y o f V e r m o n t , Burlington. G l e n n M o r e t o n —head of the reserve book room, Undergraduate Library— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. C a r o l H. M u r d o c h — cataloger— U n i v e r s i ­ t y o f M a n i t o b a , Winnipeg, Canada. S t e v e n P e r m u t — music cataloger— U n i v e r ­ s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. V i r g i n i a P h i l l i p s — assistant director for branch services— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s , Austin. P a m e l a P r i c e —serials librarian— U n i v e r s i ­ t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. C h a r l y n n P y n e — reference librarian— U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. M a r y J a n e S h a r p —serials order depart­ ment— U n i v e r s i t y o f T e n n e s s e e , Knoxville. F r a n k S h u l m a n —head of the East Asia Collection— U n i v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , Col­ lege Park. S u s a n M. S p a k — assistant librarian for tech­ nical services— H o b a r t a n d W i l l i a m S m i t h C o l l e g e s , Geneva, New York. D e n i s S u l l i v a n —reference librarian— U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f M a r y l a n d , College Park. K e n n e t h G . W a l t e r — director of libraries — G e o r g i a S o u t h e r n C o l l e g e , Statesboro. R E T I R E M E N T H e l e n W a h o s k i will retire as director of libraries at the U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n , Oshkosh, June 30. Her retirement culminates thirty years of distinguished service to the li­ brary. ■ ■