ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 38 News From th e Field A C A D E M IC STATUS Editor’s Note: From time to time the News will publish position papers and reports th at pertain to the general area of academic status. The following statement on Work Week is by Nor­ man D. Stevens, Associate University Librarian, W ilbur Cross Library, The University of Con­ necticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268. W e invite replies. These should be directed to the editor of the News. W e also invite further submissions on the general topic of academic status for consideration for inclusion in the News. These should also be addressed to the editor of the News. WORK WEEK In an age in which substantial changes in at­ titudes and responsibilities in the academic li­ brary are taking place it is difficult to know quite w hat to say about the work week. As we move toward standards which will provide for self-determination on the job, sabbatical leaves, access to research funds, and other kinds of substantial changes which are likely to have a dramatic impact on the work week of library staff, one can only offer, at this point, some gen­ eral comments about attitudes and responsibili­ ties. It is increasingly important for the individ­ ual to determine w hat his responsibilities are in terms of work attendance as well as in terms of work performance. The W ilbur Cross library is open over 100 hours a week during the academic year. Since each staff member is normally expected to work approximately 35 hours a week this provides many opportunities as well as many problems in the scheduling of staff assignments and in the establishment of the work week. The library tries to be as flexible as possible in the assign­ ment of work schedules and tries to arrange schedules that will be convenient for the indi­ vidual and which will also meet the needs of the library’s users. In the technical areas, the normal work week is 8:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday, and there are likely to be rela­ tively few scheduling problems. W here the need arises individuals may work out arrange­ ments to work a different schedule. In the pu b ­ lic service areas, however, some evening and weekend work must be scheduled for each staff member. Normally this is discussed w ith a new employee prior to his employment b u t changes in patterns of use, the addition of new staff, and other changes beyond our control may re­ quire an adjustment of schedules a t a later date. In any case each department has the final responsibility for the establishment and defini­ tion of its hours and schedules. In most of the public service departments specific desk sched­ ules must be m et and staff assignments must be made to cover such schedules. Staff members are, of course, responsible for meeting and maintaining those schedules which are normally drawn up after consultation with th e staff. As emergencies arise these schedules can be ad­ justed, but every effort to m eet them and to notify the person in charge of scheduling as far in advance as possible of any necessary changes should be made. Except for assignments of desk coverage and evening and weekend work which involve maintaining a specific schedule, the matter of work week and the use of time on the job is to be largely a matter of self-determination after consultation with other staff members and su­ pervisors and with due consideration of the needs of the department, the library, and the users. The main emphasis ought to be on seeing th at the department head is informed of the in­ dividual’s schedule and work week and th at the department head has reasonable knowledge of where a staff member is and how time is being utilized. Matters such as coffee breaks and use of time for professional reading, for personal research, for work on committees within and without the library, for attending seminars and meetings on campus, and for a variety of other tasks are left to the judgment of the individual. He is in many ways the best judge of how he can use his time to provide for the most effective performance of his duties. Department heads and other staff members, however, have a responsibility for notifying an individual when they feel that the way time is being used is interfering with the person’s contribution to the library and is be­ coming detrimental both to the library and to the person’s own opportunities for advance­ ment. Staff members should feel free to adjust their schedule to assist in the meeting of personal needs without using vacation time. Staff mem­ bers ought to feel free to take time during the week, as necessary, to attend to banking m at­ ters, to meet dental and medical appointments, to take care of automobile registration, and to handle other business which it is difficult and inconvenient to transact on weekends and eve­ nings. I t is not necessary to report this time in detail or to keep strict records on the time spent and to make up exactly that amount of time. As a matter of courtesy and good practice, however, the departm ent ought to be informed by a staff member when he is going to be away, especially if he is to be out of the building for any extended period of time during the day. In an institution such as the library it is quite 39 YOU CAN GET A BETTER VIEW OF THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT FROM THE MIDDLE. The M onitor is different from other daily newspapers. Instead of being published by a business, it's published by a church. This doesn't necessarily prove th at the M onitor is less partisan th an other papers. But perhaps this does: In a recent independent survey of 1,800 journalists, the Monitor was chosen the “fairest” newspaper in America. (The N ew York Times, by comparison, finished 16th.) Subscribing to the fairest newspaper in America has certain obvious advantages—the most im portant being that instead of the editorial leanings of the publisher, you get the sort of balanced analysis of im portant issues necessary to form your own opinions. In short, you can see the left and the right from the sharper perspective of the m iddle—a perspective that seems to be in increasingly short supply. Fortunately, the M onitor is in ab undant supply. University Microfilms is now offering the Monitor on m icrofilm —any issue in its 63-year history. For complete details, write us. If you care to order now, the price is $7 5 per year. Proving that objectivity in journalism is not only an a ttain ­ able goal, but an inexpensive one. University Microfilms Dept I 10,30 0 N o rth Zeeb Road, A n n Arbor, M ich. 48106 A XEROX COMPANY XEROX® XEROX IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF XEROX CORPORATION 40 A mirror of Chinese life HARVARD STUDIES IN EAST ASIAN LAW Jerome Alan Cohen, Chairman of the Editorial Committee Only in the last decade have Amer­ ican scholars become aware of the value that the study of law can have to an understanding of the evolu­ tion of Chinese social, economic, and political life. This important new series provides new insights into the traditions, theoretical bases, and workings of East Asian law. CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LAW: R esearch Problem s and P erspec­ tives. Edited by Jerome Alan Cohen. T hirteen essays th a t explore the methodology for studying Chinese law and investigate research ma­ terials, analyze terminology prob­ lems, and discuss the comparisons between the Chinese legal system and our own and that of the U.S.S.R. ‘...I t will be praised by men con­ cerned with seeking the universal in­ sistence of social order. The authors have proved th a t C h in a is not chaotic, although it presents less fa­ miliar features of social order than any other of the great families of law.”—Harvard Law Review $10.00 U N IN IMPERIAL CHINA: Exemplified by 190 Ch’ing Dynasty Cases (translated from the Hsing-an hui-lan) with Historical, Social, and Judicial Commentaries. By Derk Bodde and Clarence M orris. “ A landmark for the subject — a magis­ terial survey which both consolidates and amplifies previous work in the field.”—Public Affairs. $17.50 THE CRIMINAL PROCESS IN THE PEOPLE’S REPURLIC OF CHINA, 1 9 4 9 - 1 9 6 3 : An Introduction. By Jerome Alan Cohen. “. . . one of the most reveal­ ing books yet published concerning the sociopolitical life of the ordinary Chinese on the Mainland.” — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. $15.00 AGREEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, 1 9 4 9 - 1 9 6 7 : A Calendar. By Douglas M illar Johnston and Hungdah Chiu. “Seri­ ous students of China and interna­ tional law will be deeply indebted to the prodigious labor and impres­ sive scholarship which this seminal reference work represents.” — Har­ vard International Law Journal. $12.50 A new brochure describing all our books on Asia is available upon request. HARVARD UNIVERSITY P Cam R brid E ge, Mass. SS 02138 41 evident th a t staff members at all levels are like­ ly to spend some time outside of work in think­ ing about work-related problems. Thus the question of work week in terms of actual physi­ cal attendance in the library is not an important consideration. The important considerations are for the individual to feel th at he is making the maximum contribution to the library, th at he is making the best use of his time to achieve th at objective, and th at he is satisfied th a t the library and the university are receiving ade­ quate attention from him both in the actual performance of specific work assignments and in the consideration of the broader functions and responsibilities of the library and the uni­ versity. Increasingly, the judgment of other staff members as to w hether a person is making the most effective use of his time and is con­ tributing significantly to the purposes of the li­ brary and the university will play an important role in the determination of the retention, pro­ motion, and advancement of staff members. It would perhaps be easier both for the li­ brary and for the individual if each staff mem­ ber were assigned a very specific schedule and a very specific work week of 35 hours. Greater freedom and flexibility of schedules and in the use of time place greater responsibility on the individual and may lead to questions and com­ plaints about how any one individual is utiliz­ ing his time. In the long run, however, such flexibility and freedom should contribute more to the growth of the individual staff member and to the growth of the library. A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, has recently received a major donation of material on early Ameri­ can transportation from the family of the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. Consisting of 518 books and pamphlets from the late Mr. Street­ er’s large collection of Americana, these nine­ teenth-century materials now join th e 230 pieces on American railroads and canals from a previous Streeter gift in 1955. Among the latter are 150 unique (one-of-a-kind) items printed in this country before 1841. W hen add­ ed to the transportation materials at AAS ac­ quired over the years from other sources, the total approximates 5,200 printed pieces. Alto­ gether, this collection represents the finest and most complete documentation of early Ameri­ can railroads, canals, bridges, turnpikes, and harbors in existence. The entire collection will be known as the Thomas Winthrop Streeter Collection on Transportation. The railroad material begins in 1805 with a large number of pamphlets printed before 1825, prior to the beginning of practical rail­ roading. For the northeastern area of the coun­ try, the greater part of the collection falls into the pre-1841 period. For the southern and western states, the collection covers the entire formative period of railroading. In all, the ma­ terial relates to 136 different railroads, and many canal, bridge, and harbor companies. An­ other group consists of national, regional, and state guidebooks to turnpikes, canals, and rail­ roads. Few things better record the swift ad­ vance of civilization across the continent or bet­ ter communicate the flavor of travel in those early generations. • The library of the late Professor Karl Strecker has been acquired by the MacOdrum library, Carleton University, Ottawa, Cana­ da. One of the giants in medieval Latin philo­ logical studies of the early twentieth century, Strecker was an editor-in-chief of the Poetae se­ ries of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. His studies of the works of Hrotsvitha and Waltharius are widely known, and his Einfuhr­ ung in das Mittellatein (trans, into French and English) is a standard handbook on medieval Latin. The library of Professor Strecker con­ tains approximately 1,600 volumes, hundreds of offprints of articles and monographs in­ scribed and sent to him by noted scholars in medieval studies, several dozen rare books and medieval manuscript fragments, and photo­ graphs of medieval manuscripts which he had studied. Many of the books and offprints are filled with Strecker’s annotations and comments. The collection has been augmented by volumes acquired since Strecker’s death in 1945 by Dr. Norbert Eichermann, one of Strecker’s col­ leagues and also an editor in the Monumenta enterprise. • The University of D elaware library has announced the acquisition of two important manuscript collections. The first is an extensive and important collection of letters and notes written to Louis Untermeyer, poet and antholo­ gist, by more than 100 major and minor Ameri­ can and English authors, editors, and publish­ ers. There are approximately 1,100 literary let­ ters from such figures as Conrad Aiken, W il­ liam R. Benet, William S. Braithwaite, Hart Crane, Louis Golding, Ezra Pound, Edwin Ar­ lington Robinson, and Carl Sandburg, as well as a host of others. Most of the letters were composed between 1906 and 1940, with the majority w ritten from 1912 to 1925. The sec­ ond manuscript collection consists of all the re­ maining manuscripts and correspondence per­ taining to the publication of Pagany: A Native Quarterly, 1930-1933. This was among the most important of the little magazines published dur­ ing the depression years of the early thirties. Pagany’s most important contribution to mod­ ern American writing was in the field of fiction. Selections of William Carlos Williams’ novel, “W hite Male,” were first published here. Other 42 contributions include Erskine Caldwell, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Yvor Winter, and Louis Zukofsky, as well as many other known and lesser known figures. This collection consists of approximately 800 letters and manuscripts. • The Department of Special Collections of the Iowa State U niversity library has an­ nounced the acquisition and processing of sev­ eral collections, the most notable of which are the H erbert Gilkey and Alfred Kehlenbeck col­ lections of E. Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Book” series, the Louis Hermann Pammel p a­ pers, and the Earle D. Ross papers. Gilkey is professor of Engineering Mechanics and Kehl­ enbeck was professor of German and head of the Department of Modem Languages at Iowa State University. The University’s collection of Little Blue Books is now one of the largest ex­ tant, and is cataloged by edition, number, and title. Originally intended as an attem pt to bring culture to the masses, the nickel-and-dime pamphlets soon were expanded to include do- it-yourself instructional booklets and discussions of contemporary questions, primarily from a so­ cialist viewpoint. Although not always impor­ ta n t in a literary sense, the series are valuable sources of social history. The L. H. Pammel papers provide a very ex­ tense and im portant file of personal correspon­ dence and other documents of one of the most prominent scientists in early twentieth-century America. A friend of leading scientists and am­ ateurs alike, Pammel was the guiding force in the educational development of George W ash­ ington Carver, and was instrumental in con­ servation movements and the founding of the American Association of University Professors. He is best known as the father of the Iowa State Park System. The papers of Earle D. Ross constitute a third collection of significance for th e Library. Called by Henry Steele Commager “th e father of American agricultural history,” Dr. Ross is now Professor Emeritus of History a t Iowa State University. Requests for further information concerning research use should be addressed to: Dr. Stan­ ley M. Yates, Head, D epartm ent of Special Col­ lections, Iowa State University Library, Ames, Iowa 50010. • The University of Minnesota library, Rare Book Division, has recently received a gift of a comprehensive collection relating to August Strindberg. The life, work, and influ­ ence of Strindberg, the great Swedish drama­ tist, novelist, autobiographer, poet, and essay­ ist, were th e lifelong scholarly interests of the late Professor Alrik Gustafson, chairman of the Scandinavian department at the University of Minnesota from 1944 until his death in 1970. W hile pursuing his research, Professor Gustaf­ son assembled this collection of publications re­ lating to Strindberg. Consisting of 800 volumes it includes first and later editions of his plays and other writings, translations, biographical studies, and literary criticism, as well as photo­ graphs, and a large assemblage of theater pro­ grams, periodical articles, and newspaper clip­ pings of reviews of his plays. • Isaac Bashevis Singer, the noted Yiddish fiction writer, has donated thirty-five short-story manuscripts to New York University. The do­ nation, which includes holograph manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs, and notes in English and Yiddish, will be added to the permanent collection of the Fales Library, p a rt of NYU’s Division of Special Collections. Included in his donation to NYU are the original manuscripts of “Zlateh, the Goat,” “The Magician of L ub­ lin,” and “Mazel and Schlimazel.” Singer cur­ rently has more than twenty books in print. • The Ohio University library has recently acquired the collection of Professor Harlan W. Hamilton, a specialist in the Georgian period of English history and the author of a recent book on William Combe, the creator of Dr. Syntax. The collection, which includes several manuscripts an d prints as well as some 1,300 volumes, was obtained through the efforts of Carr Liggett of Cleveland, a 1916 graduate of Ohio University. Among the William Combe items are four autographed letters, first editions of the three Tours of Dr. Syntax and of The Diaboliad, and copies of many of Combe’s less­ er-known works. Other manuscripts of the pe­ riod include letters of Samuel Rogers, Henry Crabb Robinson, and Elizabeth Chudleigh ( “Duchess of Kingston” ). About one-third of the collection is composed of imprints of the period 1760-1830. These are strongly supported by works of the post-1830 period. This section of the collection is particularly strong in biogra­ phy, social life, and manners of the time. A number of engravings, prints, and playbills add pictorial interest to this Georgian collection. • Russell Sage College library, Troy, New York, has announced the acquisition of some 2,200 pieces of correspondence dating from 1962 through 1968, from the files of Ian Ham­ ilton Finlay, noted Scotch concrete poet. This collection consists in letters, cards, and manu­ script poems of other poets, artists, and critics, both traditional and avant-garde, sent to Fin­ lay over the five-year period. Notable names in­ volved are, among others, Stephen Bann, Au­ gusto de Campos, Henri Chopin, Eugen Gom- ringer, Dick Higgins, E rnst Jandl, Edwin Mor­ gan, Hansjorg Mayer, and D iter Rot. Concrete poetry as a conscious movement is an avant- garde poetic activity dating approximately from 1950, which stresses the fusion of the arts. 43 • The Hoover Institution, Stanford Univer­ sity, recently acquired an important collection of over 300 letters from famous people regard­ ing their opinions of Woodrow Wilson. These letters had been sent to Paul A. Hill in Wash­ ington over a period of thirty years, 1928-1958. Paul A. Hill was a retired schoolteacher who believed that Wilson was “the greatest states­ man” of the age and, intending to write a book to support his conviction, he appealed to more than 500 famous people all over the world ask­ ing for their opinions. Over 300 replied and, al­ though the book was never written, the letters were preserved. When Paul Hill died in 1968 the letters were given to the Hoover Institu­ tion by his sister, Mrs. Viola Koch, and his son, Gene Hill. The letters may be divided into the general headings of (1 ) those who knew Wilson and had some dealing with him in the political scene in the United States, e.g., W. E. B. Du Bois, who wrote an eight-page letter telling how he influenced the Negro vote for the Dem­ ocratic ticket in 1912, and Norman Thomas; (2 ) people prominent in the cultural milieu of the Wilson era—authors, educators, historians, psychiatrists, and religious leaders, e.g., George Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken, Edgar Lee Masters, Sigmund Freud, and David Starr Jor­ dan; (3 ) leaders in the diplomatic and political world outside the United States, e.g., J. Paul Boncour, Wellington Koo, Edward Benes, An­ dre Tardieu, Vittorio E. Orlando, and Sir Nor­ man Angell. None of these letters has previous­ ly been published. • A unified and annotated collection of the first scientific books, bulletins, and articles on American forestry, range science, ecology, and botany has been presented to the Texas A & M University library by Professor Emeritus and Mrs. E. J. Dyksterhuis. The collection includes the earliest scientific reports on the botany and zoology of the western United States of Ameri­ ca; the first national yearbooks on agriculture (1849-1861) issued by the U.S. Patent Office, and also the first issued by the Department of Agriculture (1862.); noteworthy and now rare, early publications of the U.S. Forest Service ( 1877-1905); and materials tracing such origins as that of range science. • A collection of the correspondence and the literary and professional papers of the American poet, William Jay Smith, has recently been processed by the Rare Book Department, W ashington University libraries, St. Louis. The collection—more than 600 letters and 500 other items dating from ca. 1924-1968—in­ cludes worksheets, corrected typescripts, auto­ graph drafts, notebooks, journals, galley proofs, publicity material, and miscellaneous related 44 TH E B E ST WAY TO STUDY THE ISSU E S THAT ARE TEARING AMERICA APART IS TO BRING THEM TOGETHER. Any newspaper or contemporary text can bring you astute observers of American dissent. We can bring you the dissenters. Through a new microfilm program, Protest, Controversy, and Dissent, we've put together selections from 102 radical and polemical periodicals— all dedicated to moving America sharply to the left, or the right, or making it disappear altogether. The program is designed to let you examine dissent by reconstructing it in your library. Students read the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Newsletter in conjunction with Worker's World. The National Review with The Village Voice. So one point of view can be studied in the light of its opposite, thus throwing both into sharper perspective. For complete information, write us. And get to know the enemy better— no matter whom you consider the enemy to be. D Un ept. 16 iv , 300 e N rs orth Ze it eb y Road, M A ic nn Arbor, rof M ilm ich. 481 s 03 A XEROX COMPANY XEROX® XEROX IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF XEROX CORPORATION 45 items connected with his books of poetry, trans­ lations, and writings for children. Correspon­ dents include W itter Bynner, Winfield Townley Scott, Louise Bogan, X. J. Kennedy, Merloyd Laurance, H ubert Creekmore, Richard Wilbur, Marianne Moore, Jackson Mathews, Babette Deutsch, Rosemary Benet, Donald Allen, Ruth­ ven Todd, Romualdo Romano, and many oth­ ers. In addition, the collection includes auto­ graph and typescript drafts of poems by Guy Daniels, Stephen Spender, and Allen T ate and drafts of addresses by Richard W ilbur and Louise Bogan. FELLOW SHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS • The Biomedical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, is offering three one-year traineeships in medi­ cal librarianship for the year beginning Sep­ tember I, 1971. The internship year is divided between planned training in medical librarian- ship and formal academic coursework selected from one or more of the following fields: health and life sciences, history of science, administra­ tion, information science, and foreign lan­ guages. In addition, one traineeship is available for specialized training in either the History of Medicine Division or th e MEDLARS Search Station for candidates with appropriate aca­ demic qualifications. Applicants m ust be citi­ zens of the United States (or have applied for citizenship) and hold master’s degrees from American Library Association-accredited library schools. Preference will be given to recent li­ brary school graduates who have strong back­ grounds in the biological sciences. Application forms and additional information should be re­ quested from Mrs. Leide Gilman, Training Of­ ficer, Biomedical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024. The deadline for submitting applications is April 1, 1971. • The University of F lorida libraries of­ fers a number of graduate assistantships for the academic year 1971/72, primarily for practicing professional librarians interested in study lead­ ing to a master’s or doctoral degree in a subject field other than library science. Stipends of $2,574 are awarded for a nine-month work- study period and require fifteen hours of library duty each week. Holders of assistantships are exempt from out-of-state tuition fees b u t pay resident registration fee. Awards are conditional on admission to the Graduate School of the uni­ versity, and formal applications, including Graduate Record Examination scores, m ust be submitted by February 15, 1971; necessary forms may be obtained from the Director of Li­ braries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32601. • Illinois Institute of Technology is of­ fering ten traineeship grants in science informa­ tion for the academic year beginning Septem­ ber 1971. This program brings together the fields of information processes, library orienta­ tion, technical writing, and management and operation of information centers. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in a science-, en­ gineering-, sociology-, library science-, man­ agement-, or health-related discipline. The trainees will receive a full-tuition scholarship and a living allowance of $2,400, plus $500 for each dependent. F urther information and pre­ liminary evaluation forms can be obtained from Dr. Albert J. Brouse, Illinois Institute of Tech­ nology, Chicago, Illinois 60616. Deadline for preliminary application is March 1, 1971. GRANTS • In a major move to enable university li­ braries to better meet increasing demands for service with limited funds, the Association of Research Libraries and the American Coun­ cil on E ducation are jointly sponsoring the establishment of an Office of University Library Management Studies. The Council on Library Resources has m ade a grant of $130,000 for a two-year period for the purpose. The work of the new Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies will be directed toward this objec­ tive and will be under the guidance of a joint Association of Research Libraries/American Council on Education Advisory Committee on University Library Management composed of university administrators and research librari­ ans. Members of the committee are W illard L. Boyd, President, University of Iowa; Howard W. Johnson, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Richard W. Lyman, President, Stanford University; Allan M. Cartter, Chancel­ lor and Executive Vice-President, New York University; and five university librarians; W ar­ ren J. Haas, Columbia; Douglas W. Bryant, Harvard; Herman Fussier, Chicago; John Mc­ Donald, Connecticut, and Robert Vosper, Cali­ fornia at Los Angeles; also ex officio, Stephen A. McCarthy, Executive Director, and Louis E. Martin, Associate Executive Director of the As­ sociation of Research Libraries. Duane W ebster has been named director of the Office, located in the Association of Research Libraries’ head­ quarters. Mr. Webster, previously manager of library systems for the Service Technology Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a background of experience in business, public, and university libraries. • The Drexel U niversity Graduate School of Library Science has been awarded $13,402 by the U.S. Office of Education to conduct an “The aid to government publications most needed by librarians.” Boyd and Rips, United States Government Publications, 3rd Ed. 1953 UPDATES THE 1909 CHECKLIST AND OTHER BASIC REFERENCE TOOLS USED BY DOCUMENTS LIBRARIANS Here’s how the two standard reference books on U.S. Government documents evaluate the Public Docu­ ments Library, its collection, the SuDocs Classifica­ tion scheme, and the need for updating the predeces­ sors of Checklist ’70. Government Publications and T heir Use, L. F. Schmeckebier and R. B. Eastin, 2nd Revised Edi­ tion, Brookings Institute, 1969. “There is probably no complete collection of govern­ ment publications in existence, but the one in the Public Documents Library is probably the most nearly complete . . . it has all issues listed in the Monthly Catalog and the biennial Documents Catalog. It also has some material not so listed, as back issues are often sent to the library after the catalogs are printed.” United States Government Publications, A. M. Boyd and R. E. Rips, 3rd Revised Edition, Wilson, 1953. “The Library of the Office of Superintendent of Docu­ ments is of interest to librarians . . . because of the classification scheme by which its collection is ar­ ranged. It has been adopted by many other libraries throughout the country as a most convenient and satis­ factory method of organizing and arranging collec­ tions of government publications. “There have been three checklists of government pub­ lications. . . . The third, which was much more inclu­ sive and a monumental work of incalculable value covering the entire period of United States publica­ tions to 1909 . . . was published in 1911. “A fourth edition, bringing the third edition to date, is the aid to government publications most needed by librarians.” CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENTS WILL UPDATE THE COLLECTION Thanks to GPO’s full cooperation, we are also able to offer subscriptions to a service which will update the shelf lists semiannually in dual-media cumulative supplements. The mi­ crofilm portion will include all new entries added to the shelf lists after the 1970 cut-off date. They will be filmed in SuDocs Classifi­ cation order, and the accumulated files issued semiannually until such a time as the entire shelf lists will be re-filmed in one sequence. The four indexes will be issued in paperback supplements and accumulated along with the card files. L U 1 The United States Histo by special arrangement wi and the A cting Superintendent CHECK .S. PUBLIC 789-1970 ON MICROFILM 1,200,000 shelf list cards on 16mm microfilm (roll or cartridge); arranged in SuDocs classification order by some 3000 government authors; and current as of October 1970. The active file contains approximately 550,000 cards describing publications of existing govern­ ment authors and continuous series. The inactive file contains 650,000 cards describing publications in discontinued series and items published by government authors that are no longer active. Also, both files contain about 50,000 guide cards which indicate changes of titles and identify predecessor and successor organizations. SEPARATE SUBSETS OFFERED FOR MAJOR GOVERNMENT AUTHORS Department level author breakouts are available separately upon request. For example, you may order individual microfilm reels covering the shelf lists of publications of the Department of Agricul­ ture, Interior Department, Health, Education and Welfare. Please write for price information. rical Documents Institute th the U. S . Public Printer o f Documents announces the IST OF DOCUMENTS … a deal media collection of the Active and Inactive shelf lists of the Superintendent of Documents’, Public Docu­ ments Library, Washington, D. C. IN BOUND VOLUMES Four full-size, hard cover computer-based indexes compiled by Daniel and Marilyn Lester. Mr. and Mrs. Lester are the Associate Director for Systems and Automation, and Technician, Government Publications Division, at the Library of Mankato State College in Minnesota. Index One — arranged by author in SuDocs class order showing microfilm reel numbers (in es­ sence, a detailed Table of Contents for the Mi­ crofilm Segments). Index Two — arranged in a single alphabet format by some 3000 individual government authors (both active and inactive). This index brings together all SDC numbers for any government Author, regardless of its reorganization history. Index T hree — an alphabetical listing of cabi­ net level departments and major agencies sub­ divided by their individual publishing offices listed alphabetically. Index Four — an alphabetical listing of some 18,000 U. S. Government series titles giving SDC Class numbers and microfilm reel numbers. This list will be enlarged with full descriptive data for each series in the Lesters’ forthcoming Bibliography of U.S. Government Serial Publi­ cations, 1789-1970. Note: All index entries show SDC and microfilm reel numbers. “The most comprehensive single source of published information on U.S. Government Docu­ ments." Carper W. Buckley U.S. Superintendent of Documents 1953-1970 BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Now available to librarians for the first time in any format. As stated by Carper W. Buckley, who until his retirement in 1970 had served as U.S. Superin­ tendent of Documents since 1953. "Checklist ’70 provides librarians with the most com­ prehensive single source of published information about United States Government documents. It lists all titles which appear in the shelf lists of the Public Documents Library of the U.S. Government Printing Office, covering the period 1861 through October 1970. Also included are the publications listed in the Checklist of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909, the Monthly Catalog and Mary Elizabeth Poole’s Docu­ ments Office Classification to 1966.” In addition to containing bibliographic citations and SuDocs Classification numbers for the publications mentioned above, Checklist ’70 also contains refer­ ences to thousands of publications which held security classifications when originally published and therefore did not appear in any lists or bibliographies. Most of these which were later declassified and added to the Public Documents Library’s shelf lists were never picked up retrospectively in the standard bibliographic reference tools. Each citation is at least as complete as the entries in the Monthly Catalog and often provides more infor­ mation. For instance, bibliographic data on each issue of certain periodicals are included, as well as com­ plete cross-references for changes in classification numbers, titles, or issuing agencies. Cutterized sepa­ rates are listed for some series publications. Monographic publications can be found by Cuttered keyword under the “General Publications” heading for most major departments and agencies. 48 institute on nonconventional methods in refer­ ence librarianship. A selected group of twenty reference librarians currently working at a su­ pervisory level in large academic or public li­ braries throughout the country will participate in the institute which will be held from April 12 through April 16, 1971. Recent developments in the technology of in­ formation processing have been dramatic, and the principal objective of the institute will be to develop the participants’ understanding of this technology so that they can utilize it and see its relevance to their own organizations. To accomplish this, the institute will provide in­ struction in the instrumentation which is used in typical modern systems for information stor­ age, retrieval, and dissemination. In addition, it will discuss information use and generation, and problems of system design and analysis, with emphasis given to practical means of de­ veloping and evaluating modern techniques of reference augmentation. The entire operating cycle of a modern in­ formation service will be outlined and dis­ cussed: the formulation of users’ interest pro­ files; the choice of devices and media; the art and science of writing search strategy; the in­ terpretation and possible editing of output from the search; the measurement of user satisfac­ tion; and the factors involved in revising either the interest profiles or the search strategy to ob­ tain optimal output from the searches. Both retrospective and current-awareness search ser­ vices will be covered in the instruction. Dr. Charles H. Davis and Dr. Belver C. Griffith of the Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence will serve as director and codirector of the institute, and Dr. A. Kathryn Oiler, Associate Dean of the School, will be a part-time instruc­ tor. In addition, there will be four information specialists from outside the University who will function as resource personnel: Mrs. Mary Her- ner of Herner & Company, Washington, D.C.; Miss Stella Keenan of the National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Service; Dr. Edwin Parker from Stanford University; and Mrs. Claire Schultz of Line Lexington, Pennsylvania. Application forms and further in­ formation can be obtained from Professor Charles Davis, Drexel University Graduate School of Library Science, 32d and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. • The Council on Library Resources has made a $400,000 grant to the Massachusetts I nstitute of Technology to support for one year the experimental operation of a computer- based technical library system that could be a prototype for future libraries of many kinds. The grant is the fifth the Council has made since 1967 in support of the project, known as INTREX. Other support for the design and de­ velopment of Project INTREX has come from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Independence Founda­ tion. Studies leading to the design of the system were initiated at MIT five years ago under the direction of Professor Carl F. J. Overhage, who previously headed MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory at Lexington, Massachusetts. The prototype sys­ tem th at is now in operation was developed by M IT’s Electronic Systems Laboratory under the direction of Professor J. Francis Reintjes. The system, which users can operate from remote display consoles, contains a continually growing literature base consisting of detailed catalog data and microfilm texts on more than 12,000 recent articles in the fields of materials science and engineering. This is a field th at overlaps primarily between physics and metal­ lurgy and is not restricted to a single discipline. The base is being added to at the rate of 400 new articles a month. The system has now reached a stage where further development and improvement can best be achieved through on-line experiments that permit engineering and science faculty and students to use the service for their own library work. The new grant from the Council on Li­ brary Resources will be used for these experi­ mental operations during the current 1970-71 year. • The Tri-College Library Consortium of Concordia College and Moorhead State College in Moorhead, Minnesota, and North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota, has received a $94,000 grant from the Bush Foundation in St. Paul for coordinating library resources and services among those three schools. Covering a three-year period, the grant will provide for the services of a con­ sortium library coordinator, teletype exchange service with principal libraries throughout the nation, and supportive administrative and cleri­ cal services for the Tri-College University. Of special significance in the grant award were the assets which undergird potential co­ operation among the three libraries; the com­ petence and congeniality of the library directors and their staffs; the complementarity of the cur­ ricula and library resources of the three institu­ tions; the benevolent climate of the consortium within which library cooperation takes place; the geographical proximity of the libraries which tends to make the “university” concept workable (cutting across state lines and break­ ing down barriers between public and private institutions); and the bibliographic power of the libraries in nonduplicative quantity and va­ riety. 49 MEETINGS F eb. 17-19: The third international seminar on “Approval and Gathering Plans,” sponsored by the Florida Atlantic University Library and Division of Continuing Education, will be held in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 17- 19, 1971. The two-day seminar is designed to assist those who have recently started with ap­ proval plans or are contemplating starting one. The attendance will be limited to individ­ uals who participate in the decision-making process affecting acquisitions policies and prac­ tices in their respective institutions. Feb. 22-24: The 1971 Conference of the Na­ tional Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services will be held from February 22-24, 1971, in Washington, D.C. More infor­ mation from National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services, 2102 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Details on program, organization, and topics are to be found in the December News, Meet­ ings section. Mabch 11-13, May 13-15: To provide library administrators an opportunity to learn about the solutions of management problems related to automation, two workshops in administra­ tive and management aspects of library automa­ tion have been scheduled by the Information Science and Automation Division of the Ameri­ can Library Association (ALA ISAD). Work­ shops are scheduled for Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, March 11- 13, 1971; and for MIT Endicott House, D ed­ ham, Massachusetts, May 13-15, 1971. Informa­ tion and application forms may be obtained from ISAD Institutes, American Library Asso­ ciation, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. More complete details can be found in the January News. March 25-27: The Sixth Annual Conference on Junior College Libraries will be held on the University of Illinois campus, Champaign, Illi­ nois, from March 25 through March 27, 1971. The theme for this year’s conference is: The Junior College Media Center Looks at Itself. The Conference is partially sponsored again this year by the Illinois Library Association but is not limited to junior college librarians or me­ dia specialists from Illinois. While the program is not yet completed, one of the speakers will be Roger H. Garrison, for­ mer chairman of the English department and vice-president at Briarcliff College, New York; presently, chairman of the Language and Liter­ ature department, Westbrook Junior College, 50 Portland, Maine. Another is Terry O’Banion, associate professor of higher education at the University of Illinois. The formal program and other details when completed will be available from: Ambrose Easterly, Harper College Library, Algonquin and Roselle Roads, Palatine, Illinois 60067. Apr. 23-24: Sixteenth annual Midwest Aca­ demic Librarians Conference at Indiana Uni­ versity, Bloomington, Indiana. May 6-7: The 8th Annual National Informa­ tion Retrieval Colloquium ( A N IRC) will be held in Philadelphia, May 6-7, with the estab­ lishment of a goal of participation by practi­ tioners and those new in the field of informa­ tion retrieval as the basic objective of the meet­ ing. Formal papers are not being solicited be­ cause source material for discussion is available to attendees and discussants in advance in this experiment to establish the type of interaction and dialog implied by the word, “colloquium.” Subjects for discussion will be the major infor­ mation retrieval issues reviewed in chapters of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Encyclopaedia Britannica, In c.), categorized for purposes of the Colloquium as “design,” “implementation,” and “manage­ ment.” Selected authors of appropriate chapters in the five volumes of the Annual Review and other skilled moderators will chair sessions. To develop the closer tie between panel and au­ dience needed for active participation of at­ tendees, one or more preregistrants will b e se­ lected randomly and invited to join the panel. Each can briefly sketch his point of view of the subject under discussion whether based on aca­ demic study, work experience, or other bases of conviction. The 8th annual meeting will be held at the new Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Additional information may be obtained from program chairman Don King, Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Inquiries and registration materi­ al requests should be addressed to Miss A. Ber­ ten, MDS-COP, 19 South 22d Street, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania 19103. May 7-8: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians will hold its annual meeting at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, May 7-8. The topic will be “The Challenge of Reprints.” May 20-22: A three-day institute entitled “Library Management: Man-Material-Service” 51 will be held at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, May 20-22, 1971. The institute is intended for library administrators and super­ visors. The institute director will be John H. Moriarty, Professor Emeritus of Library Sci­ ence, Purdue University. For additional infor­ mation, interested persons may write D epart­ ment of Library Science, Indiana State Univer­ sity, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809. May 30-June 3: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30-June 3. July 11-13: The School of Library and In­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fifth annual Library Administra­ tors Development Program to be held July 11- 23. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. The January News contains complete details. July 20-23: The third Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held July 20- July 23 in Bedford, England. See the December News, Meetings section, for complete details on the topics to be covered and general theme outline. Enquiries or offers to present papers should be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England. Aug. 29-Se p t . 3: The International Confer­ ence on Information Science in Tel Aviv orig­ inally announced for August 23-28, has been changed to the week following the IFIP Con­ ference in Yugoslavia, from August 29 to Sep­ tember 3. Group flights a t reduced rates will be available from various points including Yu­ goslavia. Titles and abstracts are due no later than January 1971. Registration fee ($50) in­ cludes a ladies’ program and a tour of Jerusa­ lem. For further information contact: The Or­ ganizing Committee, P.O. Box 16271, Tel Aviv, Israel. See also September News, page 249. Sept. 30-O ct. 2: The Indiana Library Asso­ ciation will meet at Stoufīer’s Inn, Indianapo­ lis, Indiana. Further information can be ob­ tained from Jane G. Flener, President, Indiana Library Association, Indiana University Li­ brary, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library Asso­ ciation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel. M ISCELLANY • For several years the University of South Dakota libraries has spearheaded a coopera­ tive project designed to do two things: (1 ) sup­ ply on demand a complete set of catalog cards for any item for which LC cards have ever been printed in a maximum turnaround time of one week ( most orders are filled within three days); and (2 ) reproduce copies of a library’s own master card on the same day they are re­ ceived. Cost: (1 ) 40-50¢ per set depending on date of publication; and (2 ) 3¢ per card pro­ duced. This project began as one library’s response to a problem common to most other libraries. By establishing our own system we could get the job done faster and cheaper than LC or any commercial dealer could. Over seventy-five li­ braries of all types in fifteen states are now working together on this cooperative venture. Any librarian who thinks th at librarians work­ ing together can solve some of their own prob­ lems as well as or better than commercial firms is welcome to join this cooperative venture. For details, write Joseph R. Edelen, Jr., Head of Technical Services, University of South Dakota Libraries, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069. • The Library of Congress has announced that on January 1, 1971, it began to assign Dewey Decimal numbers from the forthcoming 18th edition of the D ewey Decimal Classifica­ tion and to print the results on catalog cards and in book catalogs, as well as to record them on the MARC tapes. The 18th edition of Dewey is now in press and is expected to be published in mid-1971 by Forest Press, Inc., from its new address, 85 W atervliet Avenue, Albany, New York 12206. Although libraries utilizing LC’s bibliographic services may thus receive classification numbers the meanings of which have not yet been pu b ­ lished, they will enjoy the advantage of early use of many important new expansions, such as those for mathematics, law, economics, nu­ clear physics, the biological and medical sci­ ences, history, and geography. The Library’s decision to apply the provi­ sions of DC 18 before publication is based on a desire not only to take early advantage of an edition of Dewey deemed superior in many re­ spects to DC 17, bu t also to promote interna­ tional cooperation through coordination with the British National Bibliography, which began to use DC 18 on January 1 with the beginning of its new five-year cumulation, 1971-75. • Nominations for the Robert B. Downs Award for outstanding contribution to intellec­ tual freedom in libraries are being accepted by the University of I llinois Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana-Champaign. The 52 award was created in 1968 to honor Mr. Downs, dean of library administration at Illi­ nois, and to mark his twenty-five years with the university. The award of $500 will be presented during a meeting of library school alumni at the annual convention of the American Library As­ sociation. The convention will be held June 20- 26, 1971, in Dallas. The award may be given for research study, a publication, or successful or unsuccessful op­ position to censorship. I t may be made to an individual or a group. The award may go to a library board member, a nonprofessional staff member, a professional librarian, or another person. Preference will be given to such con­ tributions in the United States, b u t candidates from other countries will be considered. The award may or may not be made every year. Nominations will be considered from any source up to April 15, 1971, and should be sent to H erbert Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Final decision will be made by vote of the school faculty. • A proposal to proclaim 1972 as Interna­ tional Book Year, under the slogan, “Books for All,” has been recommended at the UNESCO General Conference. A subcommission on com­ munication at the 125-nation meeting called for the proclamation of 1972 as a year in which world attention would be focused on the role of books in society. Delegates approved a blueprint of activities for the celebration of the year under four main headings: encouragement of authorship and translation with due regard for copyright; pro­ duction and distribution of books, including the development of libraries; promotion of the reading habit; and books in the service of edu­ cation, international understanding, and peace­ ful cooperation. Plans for International Book Year were drawn up with the help of international profes­ sional organizations of publishers, authors, li­ brarians, and booksellers. All of them expressed support for this UNESCO initiative as a means of helping to ensure that full advantage is tak­ en of the recent spectacular advance in book production and distribution techniques. These advances have been described as a “book revolution” in a UNESCO study by Rob­ ert Escarpit (F ran ce), who was the rapporteur of a twenty-nation working party th at examined in detail the proposals for International Book Year. There are twice as many readers as tw en­ ty years ago, Escarpit noted, and three times as many books, b u t minimal needs are still far from being satisfied for the immense majority of the world’s population. Preliminary work for International Book Year is to begin immediately upon the conclusion of the General Conference. An international plan­ ning committee will meet at UNESCO head­ quarters early in 1971 to help p u t into effect the program adopted by the General Confer­ ence. • The Pittsburgh Regional Library Cen­ ter and the Ohio College L ibrary Center have concluded an agreement which provides for their cooperation in the development of a library network based on methods and services developed by OCLC. Under this agreement, OCLC will produce off-line catalog production to meet the requirements of members of PRLC as well as the Ohio group. I t is anticipated th at subsequent agreements will enable PRLC to participate with OCLC in OCLC’s on-line shared cataloging system pro­ viding on-line remote catalog access and circu­ lation control; searches by postcoordination of authors, subject words, and title words; serials control; and a technical processing system. Ex­ tension of this prototype linkage between OCLC and PRLC to other regional library sys­ tems could ultimately lead to the development of a national information network th at would provide greater availability of library resources, improvement of library use and operations, and reduction of the rate of use of library per-user costs. 53 • The Social Responsibilities Round Ta­ ble of the American Library Association has created a new Task Force on the American In­ dian. This group’s purpose is to change the con­ dition of library service to the native American in the city and on the reservation. Librarians, especially native Americans, are urged to con­ tact the coordinator, Charles Townley, Ameri­ can Indian bibliographer, Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106. The Task Force on the American Indian will hold meetings at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Los Angeles and Annual Conference in Dallas. PUBLICATIONS • J. P. Danton’s study of sixth-year library science specialist programs has now appeared in print. Entitled Between M.L.S. and Ph.D.; A Study of Sixth-Year Specialist Programs in Accredited Library Schools, tire study was sponsored by ALA’s Committee on Accredita­ tion. Professor Danton is on the faculty of the School of Librarianship, University of Califor­ nia, Berkeley. • The Atlanta University School of Library Service has initiated a new series of publica­ tions, “Occasional Papers,” which will be issued irregularly. The series will deal with various as­ pects of librarianship. The first number was au­ thored by Casper L. Jordan, Assistant Professor of Library Service. “Black Academic Libraries: An Inventory” recounts the results of a survey of black academic libraries made in the fall of 1969. The papers are priced at $1.00, and in­ quiries and orders should be sent to Dr. Vir­ ginia L. Jones, Dean, School of Library Service, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314. • As a by-product of a recent small confer­ ence at the Aspen institute on man and space, the institute has published an extensive anno­ tated Bibliography on Impact of Space Program on Human Values. The bibliography, which re­ views 176 books, monographs, and documents, 33 periodicals, and 38 bibliographies, is divided into three parts. Part one covers space science, exploration and policy, and materials dealing largely or entirely with space and astronautics. Part two deals with science and technology in relation to space and includes generally broad­ er material on the history, philosophy, and pol­ icy of science and technology. Each of the first two parts is further divided into books, mono­ graphs, government documents, and whole is­ sues of journals; articles from the periodical lit­ erature; and bibliographies and secondary sources. Part three is a list of periodicals in which articles on the humanistic and social as­ pects of space are likely to be found. Copies may be purchased from the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, P.O. Box 219, Aspen, Colo­ rado 81611 a t a cost of $2.50 each. 54 • The second publication in a series of spe­ cial publications issued by the U.S. National Section of the Pan American Institute of Geog­ raphy and History is now available. The second publication, A Bibliography of Theses and Dis­ sertations on Latin America by U.S. Geogra­ phers, 1960-1970, was compiled by E rnst C. Griffin and Clarence W. Minkel of Michigan State University. The 240 bibliographic entries are arranged on an individual country basis, while the 37 dissertations in preparation are listed alphabetically at the end of the bibliogra­ phy. The bibliographic entry indicates if the thesis or dissertation is available on interlibrary loan, has been microfilmed by a university or by University Microfilms, or if the abstract has been published in Dissertation Abstracts. The bibliography consists of a preface and a sixteen- page bibliography, and costs $1.00. Individuals interested in receiving this publication should make their check or money order payable to: Dr. Arthur L. Burt, Chairman, U.S. National Section, PAIGH, Department of State, Room 8847, Washington, D.C. 20520. • A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleuthe- rian Mills Historical Library: Accessions through the year 1965 by John Beverley Riggs has been published by the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, Greenville, Wilmington, Delaware. This 1,205-page Guide lists the li­ brary’s extensive holdings in the field of indus­ trial history and the history of one of America’s important industrial families. Described in de­ tail are the archives of th e D u Pont Company from 1802-1902 as well as a large accumula­ tion of the records of enterprises located in the Delaware River region. A comprehensive index fills over 200 pages. Included with business and economic records is a large collection of the papers of prominent members of the Du Pont family. Among the over two-and-one-half million manuscripts which fill shelves nearly a mile in extent are the papers of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, who led his family to America in 1800. D u Pont de Nemours was a friend of Jefferson and Franklin, a government official in France under the Ancien Regime, and a member of the revo­ lutionary government. To assist the researcher, author Riggs has prepared biographical sketch­ es and chronologies of the more significant per­ sonalities and businesses. The Guide is avail­ able from the Publications Department, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Green­ ville, Wilmington, Delaware 19807. • A bibliography of serial publications for the study of sub-Saharan Africa has been issued by the Library of Congress. Sub-Saharan Africa; A Guide to Serials is for sale at $5.25 a copy from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Compiled by the African Section of the Library’s General Reference and Bibliography Division, the 409-page guide contains 4,670 en­ tries recording a selection of serials published before 1969 in western languages and in Afri­ can languages using the Roman alphabet. It in­ cludes many of the titles appearing in Serials for African Studies, issued by the Library in 1961, except that publications specifically on North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tu­ nisia, and the United Arab Republic) have been excluded. Most of the titles are held by the Library of Congress and other American li­ braries represented in the National Union Cata­ log. In selecting the entries, the compilers have included monographic series, yearbooks, direc­ tories, and annual reports of learned institu­ tions. Several categories of publications have been excluded, however, such as annual reports of African government departments, serials of most territorial, provincial, and municipal ad­ ministrations, publishers’ lists, daily press re­ leases, missionary journals devoted primarily to religious material rather than African affairs, and telephone directories. Notes to several hun­ dred entries include information as to where the serials are abstracted or indexed. News from th e Sections ART SUBSECTION Peter Anthony of the University of Manitoba, Architecture Librarian and Chairman of the Art Subsection of ACRL, announces a survey ques­ tionnaire sent to 1,200 members of ALA who have, in the past, expressed an interest in art libraries and art librarianship. Its purpose is twofold: to canvass the membership’s activities in research projects or special interests; and to elicit response as to the future programs to be scheduled for the ACRL Art Subsection. All who have received questionnaires are urged to respond. For further information or for the questionnaire, please address inquiries to Mrs. Kerry Zack, Art Library, Box 1605A, Yale Sta­ tion, New Haven, Connecticut 06520. ■ ■ ACRL Membership December 31, 1970 ..................... 12,249 December 31, 1969 ........................ 13,996 December 31, 1968 ........................ 13,580