ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 280 1, 1 9 7 3 . Application and recommendation forms are available from the jury chairman, Charles D . Patterson, School of Library Science, L ou­ isiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 7 0 8 0 3 . Staff liaison, Delores Vaughan. L i b r a r y B in d in g I n s t it u t e S c h o l a r s h ip . A n an n u al sch olarship o f $ 1 ,0 0 0 m ad e to a w orth y stu d en t to fu rth e r his lib ra r y e d u c a ­ tion . I t is m a d e to a resid en t o f t h e U n ited S ta te s w ith o u t reg ard to ra c e , co lo r, cre e d , or g e o g ra p h ica l orig in . D o n a te d b y th e L ib r a r y B in d in g In stitu te . A dm in istered b y th e L ib r a r y E d u c a tio n D iv isio n . Applications must be submitted by January 1 0 , 1 9 7 3 . Inform ation and application forms are available from the jury chairman, Budd L. Gam bee, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2 7 5 1 4 . Staff liaison, Delores Vaughan. J oh n R. R o w e M e m o r ia l A w a r d (fo r m e r ly E x h i b i t s R o un d T a b l e A w a r d ) , An a n n u a l award of $ 5 0 0 made to an individual or group to aid or improve some particular aspect of li­ brarianship or library service on the basis of need in the profession or in the operation of professional library associations. D onated and administered by Exhibits Round Table. Deadline for applications April 1, 1973. In ­ formation and application forms are available from Chris Hoy, Conference M anager, ALA headquarters. H e r b e r t W . P u t n a m H o n o r F u n d A w a r d . An award of $500 presented at intervals as a grant-in-aid to an American librarian of out­ standing ability for travel, writing, or other use that m ight improve his or her service to the library profession or to society. Adminis­ tered by the ALA Awards Com mittee which serves as the jury. D eadline for applications, M arch 15, 1973. Nominations should be sent to R obert F . D el zell, D irector of Personnel, University of Illi­ nois Library, Urbana, I L 6 1 8 0 1 . Staff liaison, Judith F . Krug. ■ ■ News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f M o n t r e a l L i b r a r i e s is p r o u d t o a n n o u n c e t h a t i t h a s r e c e i v e d a g i f t o f 3 ,5 0 0 t o 4 ,0 0 0 C a n a d i a n a b o o k s a n d m a n u s c r i p t s v a l u e d a t a p p r o x i m a t e l y $5 0 0 ,0 0 0 f r o m M r . L o u i s M e l z a c k , a M o n t r e a l b o o k ­ s e l l e r a n d c o l l e c t o r . T h e c o l l e c t i o n w i l l p r o b ­ a b l y b e a v a i l a b l e t o t h e p u b l i c s o m e t i m e i n t h e f a l l 1 972 a t t h e n e w M e l z a c k R o o m o f t h e s p e c i a l c o l l e c t i o n s d e p a r t m e n t . T he library also acquired 5 ,0 0 0 original propaganda posters printed by all sides dur­ ing W orld W ar I. In order to put them into usable form at, w e have had them photo­ graphed and put on slides. T h e Social S ci­ ences and Humanities L ibrary will b e able to serve the interested researchers during the fall of 197 2 with the slides. T he originals are also available, of course. • A rare collection of letters, photographs, and mementos of the nineteenth century Amer­ ican actor Edw in Booth has been acquired by the library of C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Northridge. According to Norman E . Tanis, director of the library, purchase of the collec­ tion from the actor’s great-granddaughter, Ms. Edw ina Booth Cutting, was made possible through the generosity of friends of the library. Included in the Booth collection is an auto­ graphed program dated M arch 22, 1865, the 100th consecutive perform ance of Hamlet at New York’s W inter Garden Theater. T h e pro­ gram, which was issued to commemorate the record-breaking run, includes the text of the play and an essay on Hamlet. Another rare program in the collection is that of an 1886 joint appearance by B ooth and the noted Italian actor Tommaso Salvini. Among the collection’s numerous photo­ graphs is one showing Booth with another great American actor, Law rence Berret, which is thought to be the only photograph taken of the two actors together. A rare phonograph recording of Booth reading O thello’s speech to the Venetian senate is also included in the col­ lection. T h e recording was repressed from an original Edison wax cylinder recorded by Booth in lim ited edition in 1890. Ms. C utting stated that a signed letter writ­ ten in 1 8 7 9 from Booth to G. H. Howard may b e the only extant copy of the actor’s original correspondence. Also included in the collec­ tion is a charm ing note in Booth’s handwriting to his grandchild. Ms. Cutting also presented the library with personal objects such as a stamp box, a humidor, and a pewter plate w hich belonged to Booth. T h e extensive collection of 2 5 3 items con­ tains 128 photographs of Booth and members o f his family. T h e twenty-two books include biographies by Booth’s daughter Edw ina and sister Asia, and the rem iniscences of his leading 281 lady, Katherine Goodele. An autographed edition of the play “Edw in Booth” by Milton Geiger is included. Also in the collection are newspaper clippings and articles, additional theater programs, and handwritten theater passes which Booth gave to his friends and family. • Fred W . Hanes, dean o f library services at I n d i a n a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y in T erre Haute, has announced the recent acquisition of the Newton C ollection of early dictionaries which adds significantly to the Cordell Collection of D ictionaries at Indiana State’s Cunningham M emorial Library. T he purchase, made possible through a continuing grant from the National Endow ment for the Humanities, adds 500 volumes to the 1,000 already in the Cordell Collection. Roy Newton, a retired professor of English at Ferris State College, B ig Rapids, Michigan, assembled his collection of dictionaries over several generations. An avid connoisseur of the word, he becam e one of the very few major collectors of dictionaries in the United States while taking special care to concentrate on American lexicographers, especially W ebster and W orcester. And it is these American dic­ tionaries which add an important dimension to the British items that form an outstanding part of the Cordell Collection. W ith th e new additions, historians of the Am erican-English language will b e able to trace in detail the evolution of American lexi­ cography from its beginnings in the early nine­ teenth century up to the present day. The books will also contribute toward an under­ standing of the printing and publishing history of American dictionaries and their place in cultural history. In addition, an important series of English dictionaries was acquired in the purchase. Na­ than Bailey, Robert Ainsworth, and William Perry are only a few of the lexicographers rep­ resented in this segment of the Newton pur­ chase. • A new O h i o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y collec­ tion will give scholars access for the first time to microfilms of rare documents reflecting church-state relations at the time of th e fall of the Byzantine Em pire and conquest of the Ottoman Turks. T h e only complete archive in the world of Serbian manuscripts from the Hilandar Monastery of M t. Athos, G reece, the 8 2 4 manuscripts, edicts and charters, were m i­ crofilmed under the direction of Professor M a teja M atejic of Ohio State’s departm ent of Slavic languages and literatures. The university has published a new 165- page checklist of th e Hilandar materials m i­ crofilmed during the summers of 1970 and 1971 with the assistance of Professor W alt D. Craig in 197 0 and Professor M atejic’s son, Predrag, in 1971. T h e Ohio State collection, when completed, will also include microfilms o f hundreds of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Russian, and Valachian documents. T h e project is supported by a $14,- 237 Endow m ent for the Humanities grant matched b y $ 1 8 ,0 6 4 university funds for the current year. T he next phase of the project will cover classification of the manuscripts in several broad categories for publication in a catalog, with the most valuable ones singled out for prior­ ity treatment. A system of detailed classifica­ tion and description will be worked out and tested with the assistance of scholars here and abroad. T he present collection includes material on folk medicine, music, superstitious interpreta­ tions of natural omens, and religious rites and liturgies of the Byzantine tim e. It consists of 82 4 com plete manuscripts totaling some 3 2 0 ,- 000 pages, 6 0 0 edicts and charters, including A C R L Membership Septem ber 30, 1972 ............................ 12,151 Septem ber 30, 1971 ............................ 11,763 Septem ber 30, 1 970 ............................ 11,834 282Reprints OF IMPORTANT JOURNALS IN American Economic Review (American Economic Association) Vols. 1-10. Ithaca 1911-1920 Clothbound s e t ............ $310.00 Paperbound set ............ 270.00 Vols. 11-34,1921-1944 (Partly in the original edition) Unbound s e t . . . . . . . . . . . . 640.00 “ Outstanding both for its ex­ tensive book reviews and its forthright articles. Articles, often with bibliographies, range from wages and employment to marketing and welfare. A basic journal for a beginning or ad­ vanced collection in this area.” —Katz, Magazines for Libraries Far Eastern Economic Review Vols. 1-25. Hong Kong 1946-1958 Clothbound s e t ............ $935.00 Paperbound set ............ 860.00 This independent weekly journal has been the standard authority on commercial devel­ opments in the 29 countries of South and East Asia. Emanating from Hong Kong, its international staff dispatches weekly some 40-50 pages of news concern­ ing all aspects of trade, indus­ try, agriculture, finance, transportation, and business opportunities in the area. Journal of Political Economy (Chicago. University) Vols. 1-50. Chicago 1892/93-1942 Clothbound s e t ............ $1,790.00 Paperbound s e t ............ 1,590.00 This important journal is an invaluable source of material covering the development of political economy. Articles deal with such diverse fields as economic history, economic development, the theory of economic planning, the theory of political choice, the eco­ nomics of education, industrial organization and international trade. P ric e s o f in d iv id u a l v o lu m e s o f a ll jo u rn a ls are a v a ila b le u p o n re q u e st. P lease a d d re s s a ll o rd e rs an d in q u irie s to P a u l N e g ri. ECONOMICS A832ND BUSINESS Survey of Current Business (U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce) Vols. 1-40. Washington, D.C. 1921-1960 (Including supplements) Clothbound s e t ............ $1,775.00 Paperbound s e t ............ 1,600.00 “ A government periodical de­ voted to a monthly review of employment, economic activity, government spending, produc­ tion, construction, and personal income for the last month. Forecasts of the general trends of business for the immediate future are given. A basic ac­ quisition in all medium to large public and academic libraries.” —Katz, Magazines for Libraries NAA Management Accounting (National Association of Accountants) Vols. 1-42. New York 1919/20-1960/61 Clothbound s e t ............ $1,380.00 Paperbound s e t ............ 1,215.00 This journal is rich in valid data on the evolutionary develop­ ment of internal enterprise ac­ counting—from cost accounting to industrial accounting to to­ day’s management accounting. Articles cover a wide range from costing theory to the tech­ nical details of application. Journal of Accountancy (American Institute of Accountants) Vols. 1-25. New York 1905-1918 Clothbound s e t ............ $575.00 Paperbound s e t ............ 475.00 This journal has reported and to a large extent influenced the dynamic development of ac­ counting in the twentieth cen­ tury. In addition to major articles, the journal presents regular features dealing with practical accounting, tax and professional questions. Available FROM JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION N e w Y o r k a n d L o n d o n /1 1 1 F ifth A v e n u e /N e w Y o rk , N.Y. 10003 S E R IA L PUBLICATIO N S 2nd Edition Andrew D. Osborn T he standard treatise on the selection, processing, cataloging, and ser­ vicing of serials is here brought up to date. Osborn emphasizes the implications of developments new to the profession: the growth of com­ puter technology, the Anglo-American Catalog Rules of 1967, the use of Coden, and the emergence of the book catalog for serials. He sets forth sound principles and relates them to actual practice. ISBN 0-8389-0118-2 $15.50 A S TA CK OF BO OK S F RO M AL A HOW TO CATALOG A R A R E BOOK 2nd Edition, Revised Paul S. Dunkin Here, in an up-dated version of the 1951 edition, is a method which allows any cataloger to catalog a rare book without having had previous experience. In clear language, with no jargon, the book explains how the catalog description of a rare book can be written in brief, simple English. T he author makes the complicated Bowers collation formula readily understand­ able and describes a concise means of title transcription. IS B N 0-8389-0141-7 $4.95 REGIONAL P E R S P E C T IV E S An Examination of America’s Literary Heritage John Gordon Burke, editor Hayden Carruth, George G arrett, Larry Goodwyn, Jo h n Knoepfle, and William Everson examine five geographical regions of the United States, the qualities which define them, the literary heritage and important contributions of each, and the characteristics which make each region’s literature unique. A bibliog­ raphy on regionalism and American literature is also included. IS B N 0-8389-3136-7 Winter PER IO D IC ALS FO R SCHOOL L IB R A R IE S A Guide to Magazines, Newspapers, and Periodical Indexes Revised Edition Compiled and edited by Marian H. Scott An evaluation of periodicals for children from kindergarten through grade 12. Covering the realities of curricular demands and the wide range of reading levels and personal interests of students, the pùb lications chosen include key foreign and ethnic periodicals, and all meet the recommendations of the new Standards a t all grade levels. IS B N 0-8389-0139-5 Winter AG RIC ULTURAL EDUCATION IN A TECH N IC AL SO C IETY Mary Ruth Brown, Eugenie Lair Moss, and Karin D. Bright T he first presentation, in one volume, of print and non-print m ate­ rial from widely differing sources: textbooks, reference works, pe­ riodicals, government publications, and learning materials available from societies, industries, and organizations. Also included is infor­ mation on filmstrips, transparencies, and other audio-visual aids. IS B N 0-8389-0128-X Fall AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 E . Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 285 ones from the Byzantine time between 1009 and 1453; Greek, Bulgarian, Valachian, and Serbian documents. G R A N T S • Grants totaling nearly $5 million doll to six independent research libraries and twen­ ty-four university presses have been announced by Nathan M. Pusey, president of the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation. Pusey added that these grants represent a further step in a larger ef­ fort being pursued currently by the foundation to aid scholars and scholarship, chiefly in the humanities, in a period for many institutions o f acute financial stringency. Grants totaling $ 2 ,500,000 were made to six independent research libraries to provide funds on a continuing basis to enable the directors of these libraries to make their unique collec­ tions more accessible to and more actively used by qualified scholars working in the various fields of humanistic learning which are served by their invaluable collections. T h e l i b r a r i e s i n c l u d e d i n t h i s p r o g r a m a r e t h e F o l g e r S h a k e s p e a r e L i b r a r y i n W a s h ­ i n g t o n , D .C ., t h e H e n r y E . H u n t i n g t o n L i b r a r y i n S a n M a r i n o , C a l i f o r n i a , t h e N e w ­ b e r r y L i b r a r y i n C h i c a g o , t h e P i e r p o n t M o r g a n L i b r a r y i n New York, t h e A m e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y L i b r a r y i n Worcester, M a s s a c h u s e t t s , a n d t h e A m e r i c a n P h i l o s o p h ­ i c a l S o c i e t y L i b r a r y i n P h i l a d e l p h i a . T he grants to the presses—varying in amount from $ 40,000 to $150,000, depending upon the size and scope of operation—were made to en­ able them to increase the number of scholarly works they will b e able to publish over the next several years by providing a source of funds for the subsidies such publications re­ quire. T h e presses were asked, in expending the funds, to make special efforts to aid young scholars publishing first or second books. They were also encouraged to experiment with tech ­ nological improvements to reduce publication costs. A supplementary grant was made to the American Council of Learned Societies to which other, for the most part smaller, member presses of the Association of American Uni­ versity Presses may apply, in a program the council will announce, for subsidies for scholar­ ly works in the humanities which they may wish to publish. T he presses to which individual grants were made are those of the following universities: California, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Har­ vard, Johns Hopkins, Illinois, M .I.T ., M cGill- Queens, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Princeton, Stanford, Texas, Toronto, Washington, W esley­ an, Wisconsin, Yale, and a consortium of uni­ versities in New England. ar • T he Institute of Library Research at the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a at Berkeley has received a grant of $ 7 7,000 from the Office of Education of the Departm ent of Health, E du­ cation and W elfare to undertake an eighteen month study, nationwide in scope, of library and information problems of prison populations. s Reliable, current data will provide a basis for improving library services toward achieving their full potential in the rehabilitational proc­ ess. Statistical data on adult correctional library services was last compiled in 1966 in a nation­ wide survey done by a joint committee of the Association of Hospital and Institutional Librar­ ies and the American Correctional Associa­ tion. Library services available to juveniles in correctional institutions have never been sur­ veyed on a nationwide basis. Information will b e gathered in site visits to selected facilities in exemplary states, personal interviews, and surveys o f existing documents. Initial efforts of the I.L .R . project have been directed toward problems of providing access to legal research materials for prisoners. In re­ sponse to a recent Federal Supreme Court de­ cision which established the right o f access to the courts, a conference, jointly sponsored by the American Correctional Association and the Institute of Library Research, was held in Washington, D.C. Participants were correc­ tional administrators, librarians, and attorneys representing such groups as the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association of Hospital and Institutional Libraries, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Health, Education and W elfare, Social Responsibilities Round T ab le of ALA, the Library Committee of the American Cor­ rectional Association, the School of Library Ser­ vice of Columbia University, and the Institute of Library Research at the University of Cali­ fornia. Activities of this new project will be di­ rected toward the development of guidelines for improving services, and the development of a handbook of current practices and statis­ tical data. Plans are being made for a demon­ stration library to be established in one or more correctional facilities. Charles P. Bourne, director of the Institute of Library Research, will serve as principal in­ vestigator and Ms. Marjorie L e Donne as project director. Consultants for the project are: Richard M cGee, president of the Amer­ ican Justice Institute and formerly director of the California Department of Corrections; Ira Phillips, executive secretary of the Associa­ tion of Hospital and Institutional Libraries; Dr. E . Preston Sharp, general secretary of the American Correctional Association; Marion Ved der, formerly associate library supervisor, New York State Library and chairman of the L ibrary 286 Committee of the American Correction­ al Association. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f M i n n e s o t a Bio-M ed­ ical Library has been awarded a three-year grant o f $361,729 from the National Library of Medicine to develop a “minicomputer” system. A low cost, stand alone, library-controlled com­ puter system will be developed with on-line visual terminals which can handle all data processing for a medical library, including seri­ als control, book ordering and accounting, cataloging, circulation, and computer-assisted reference. The project will expand on the auto­ mated procedures which are presently in op­ eration in the Bio-M edical Library. Glenn Brudvig is head of the Library and Audrey Grosch is project director. • The Graduate School of Library Science at D r e x e l U n i v e r s i t y , Philadelphia, Pennsyl­ vania, has been awarded a grant of $7,601 from the State Library of Pennsylvania to con­ duct a workshop which will explore ways in which large libraries may share resources among themselves. The workshop will be held at the Hershey Hotel, Hershey, Pennsylvania, in Jan ­ uary of 1973. A group of thirty librarians from large li­ braries in Pennsylvania will be invited to attend and will, together with outstanding re­ source people, investigate ways in which their informational materials and expert staffs may be shared in order to provide better library service to all citizens of the state. Such topics as shared or coordinated acquisitions, union lists, common storage of little-used items, use of telecommunications to transmit materials and bibliographic citations, and the sharing of specialists will be studied. Brigitte L. Kenney, assistant professor, is director of the workshop. M E E T I N G S D e c e m b e r 1 0 -1 3 : An international symposi­ um on the role of books and other educational materials in meeting the educational and eco­ nomic goals of developed and developing coun­ tries will b e held from Decem ber 10 to 13 it was announced today by conference director Francis Keppel. T he meeting, limited to fifty invited participants, will take place at a con­ ference center outside New York City. T he conference is being sponsored by the ad hoc committee for U.S. participation in International Book Year, 1972. Both general sessions and small group meetings will bring together individuals responsible for economic development planning, educational planning, 287 and specialists in the creation, publication, dis­ tribution, and use of educational materials in the several media. Representatives from such nations as Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czecho­ slovakia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Thailand, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, and the U .S.S.R . have been invited to participate. The conferees will be furnished in advance with working papers prepared specifically for this meeting. T h e papers will be denoted to an examination of the following areas: ( 1 ) the essential educational component of econom­ ic development; ( 2 ) the qualitative needs and fiscal allocations for educational materials and libraries; ( 3 ) educational strategy in develop­ ing countries; ( 4 ) the practical considerations involved in the production and distribution of books and other educational materials. Keppel noted that conference sessions will contribute to a final report which will contain findings and recommendations with a guide for future use by both participants and others. The conference is designed to achieve a more productive collaboration among specialists con­ cerned with educational and economic plan­ ning. The report will serve as both a theo­ retical base and a practical guide to increas­ ing the effective use of educational materials in meeting national goals. Conference director, Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, and dean of the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University is now chairman of the board of General Learning Corporation. Cochairmen of the a d hoc committee for U.S. participation in International Book Year are Emerson Green­ away, librarian-emeritus of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and Theodore W aller, president of the Grolier Educational Corporation. A p r i l 29 -M a y 3, 1973: Port-of-Spain, Trin­ idad, W est Indies will be the site of the Eighteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, April 29-M ay 3, 1973. The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the W est Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will be cohosts for the seminar. The conference will sponsor a series of workshops on matters relating to Caribbean Acquisitions, Latin American bookdealers, li­ brary exchange programs, new bibliographic tools for Latin American studies, and the train­ ing of Latin American librarians. Special at­ tention will be given to National, Regional, and International Planning for library services. Registration in the Eighteenth Seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. Preprint working papers are included in the registration fee, and are avail­ able only by registering in advance. Librarians and scholars from Latin America and the Carib­ bean may attend the seminar without paying the registration fee and will receive a set of the working papers. Librarians and students from Trinidad and other islands in the W est Indies will be admitted to the conference without charge but must register and pay a fee of $7.50 if they wish sets of the working papers. The conference coordinator is Ms. Irma Han nays, Librarian, Industrial Development Cor­ poration, Salvatori Building, P.O. Box 949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Information on the content of the program and working papers may be procured from Donald F . Wisdom, Serial Division, Library of Congress, W ashing­ ton, D C 20540. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Ms. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, D C 20006. M I S C E L L A N Y • T w o grad uate program s o f lib rary ed u ca­ tion hav e be en officially accre d ite d b y th e A m erican L ib ra ry A ssociation acco rd in g to an announcem en t issued b y the C o m m i t t e e on Ac c r e d it a t io n a t th e A L A A nnual C o n feren ce in C h icago . T h e new ly a ccred ited program s are offered b y the School o f In fo rm ation and L ib ra ry Stu dies, S ta te U niv ersity o f New York at B uffalo (G e o rg e S. B obin sk i, d e a n ), and the D ivision of L ib ra ry S c ie n ce , So u thern C o n ­ ne cticu t S ta te C o llege (E v e ly n R . R obinson , d ir e c to r). T h is brings the nu m ber o f library schools offering program s accre d ite d under the 1951 Standards for A ccreditation to 57. • T h e t w o l a r g e s t s c i e n t i f i c a b s t r a c t i n g a n d i n d e x i n g s e r v i c e s o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s h a v e a n n o u n c e d t h e i r d e c i s i o n t o u n d e r t a k e a n e x ­ t e n s i v e p r o g r a m o f o p e r a t i o n a l c o o p e r a t i o n a n d c o o r d i n a t i o n . B i o S c i e n c e s I n f o r m a t i o n S e r ­ v i c e ( B I O S I S ) o f B i o l o g i c a l A b s t r a c t s a n d t h e A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y ’s C h e m i c a l A b s t r a c t s S e r v i c e ( C A S ) w i l l e n d e a v o r t o c o o r d i n a t e c o v e r a g e , e l i m i n a t e d u p l i c a t i o n o f i n t e l l e c t u a l a n d o t h e r p r o c e s s i n g e f f o r t i n t h e p r o d u c t i o n o f t h e i r p u b l i c a t i o n s a n d s e r v ic e s , a n d d e v e l o p a d e g r e e o f c o m p a t i b i l i t y t h a t w i l l p e r m i t t h e i r s e r v ic e s t o b e u s e d e f f e c ­ t i v e l y i n c o m b i n a t i o n . Officials of B IO S IS and CAS said that re­ sults of cooperative programs undertaken over the past several years indicate that coordina­ tion at an operating level could lead to lower costs in processing information and improve the utility of the services provided by both or­ ganizations. Coordination of indexing practices and the establishment of an effective means of interconnecting the indexes of the two ser­ vices would allow much of the present duplica­ tion in processing effort to be eliminated and thus assist the biologist and the chemist in their search for information. Some specific objectives agreed upon by B IO S IS and CAS are: Development of a single index to library holdings A t last, one source o f882 subject access to 20t CUMULATIVE h MONTHLY This new fourteen volume single-alphabet subject index set … is of fe re d b y itself — f o r li b r a rie s h o l d in g c o m p l e t e r u n s o f th e M o n th ly C a ta lo g — or, in a COMBINED REFERENCE EDITION w h ic h c o n t a i n s a c o m p l e t e M I C R O F I L M c o lle c ti o n o f th e M o n th ly C a ta lo g f r o m 1 8 9 5 t h r o u g h 1971 f o r c o n v e n i e n t r e f e r e n c e u se w it h th e i n d e x v o lu m e s . The complete backfile o f the M onthly C atalog was m icro­ filmed by the Photoduplication Division o f the Library o f Congress especially for use with our Cumulative Sub­ ject Index. The 53 reel set contains the full text o f all 867 indexed issues o f the M onthly C atalog and its 3 World W ar I I supplements, plus the two D ecennial In ­ dexes, and some 60 pre-1900 issues which were not indexed. M onthly C atalog entries contain com plete bibliographical data for almost every U .S. Governm ent publication; in­ cluding title, personal author, collation, L C number, Su- D ocs classification number, price, ordering inform ation, and a symbol indicating if the publication was sent to depository libraries. All Subject Index entries before September 1947 show year-and-page numbers whereas later entries give year- and-entry numbers. E ach two digit year number ( ’00 through ’7 1 ) serves as the reel number in the microfilm collection. Page and entry numbers appear in numerical sequence on the film; and as all entries for any given year o f M onthly C atalog are on the same reel, the numerical sequences are never broken and it is never necessary to look on more than one reel for any single year. Because o f the lack o f standardization in the microfilm industry, we offer our sets with a variety o f film options; including a choice between silver halide film or Diazo, roll or cartridge, and 16mm or 35m m film size. N ote: Although we believe the Combined Reference Edition concept described above is a m ost efficient yet inexpen­ sive system, the Cumulative Index Volum es can also be used effectively with sets o f the original M onthly C atalogs, or with other microfilm versions o f the series. Libraries having incomplete collections o f the M onthly C atalog can, of course, complete their holdings with the purchase o f microfilm reels fo r individual years. SUBJECT INDEX TO THE CATALOG OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 1900-1971 289Century U.S. Government Publications Subject Access has long been the missing key to the wider research use o f U .S . Govern­ ment publications. Now, f o r the f i r s t time, librarians and scholars can unlock the massive reference potential of the more than one million congressional and departmental publications listed in 72 years of the M onthly Catalog and its supplements. The unique new C U M U L A T IV E S U B JE C T IN D E X will elim inate 34 search steps which were form erly necessary to trace subjects through these indexes to 20th Century U .S. Governm ent publications: — 21 Biennial D ocum ent C atalogs (1 9 0 0 -1 9 4 0 ), — 2 D ecen n ial Indexes (1 9 4 1 -6 0 ), and — 11 A nnual In dexes (1 9 6 1 -1 9 7 1 ). All subject entries in the fourteen volume cumulative index were accumulated from 81 separate sources in the M onthly C atalog series and merged into one reference set. These sources include: 48 Annual Indexes to the M onthly Catalog, 2 Decennial Indexes, (1 9 4 1 -1 9 5 0 ; 1 9 5 1 -1 9 6 0 ), 1 Six-m onth Index, and 30 M onthly C atalogs for which no annual in­ dexes were made. D elivery: The complete microfilm segment and Index Volum e I will be ready for shipment Novem ber 15th, with the remaining volumes scheduled to follow at decreasing intervals until the projected com pletion date o f M ay 31, 1973. Meanwhile, all M onthly C atalog indexes and the 2 D ecen n ial Indexes are included in the microfilm segment fo r tempo­ rary use. U SE THIS COUPON TO R E S E R V E Y O U R SETS A T P R E -P U B L IC A T IO N PR IC ES 290 of periodicals covered by the two ser­ vices. Establishment and use of a common system for identifying documents. Development of compatible terminology au­ thority files. In areas of overlap, use of the same abstracts in both services, where feasi­ ble, and possible eventual elimination of du­ plicate publishing of abstracts in certain areas of the primary literature, accompanied by coordination of indexing policies and prac­ tices. Adoption of common processing standards and development of compatible computer-read­ able, microform, and printed services where feasible. • A utom ated catalog card produ ction from L ib ra ry of Congress M A R C tapes is th e o b je c ­ tiv e o f a new p ro je ct w h ich was initiated on April 1 a t th e I n s t i t u t e o f L i b r a r y R e s e a r c h ( I L R ) a t the U niversity of C alifo rn ia, B e rk e ­ ley. An ad ju n ct o f th e U niversity-w ide L ib rary A utom ation Program , th e U .C . B ib lio grap h ic C en te r ( B I B C E N T E R ) Pilot P ro ject w ill pro­ vide pro totyp e service o f presorted card sets individually custom ized for a given card c a ta ­ log. F o u r U .C . cam puses are p articip atin g in the developm ent and p ilot op eration : B e rk e ­ ley, L os Angeles, Sa n D ieg o , and Sa n ta Cruz. Under the general supervision of Charles Bourne, director of IL R and acting director of University-wide Library Automation Programs, the B IB C E N T E R has a small system develop­ ment staff comprised of programmers and li­ brarians and is managed by Ja y Cunningham. The participating campuses are providing a significant amount of design work, program­ ming contribution, computer time, and other re­ sources. T he MARC tape subscription now being maintained by the UCLA University Research Library will render the source cata­ loging data on an interim basis. A special ad­ visory and resource committee guides B I B ­ C E N T E R policy and development. Members of the committee are: Michael Berger, head, Bibliographic Records, U.C. Santa Cruz; Mar­ garet Capron, Catalog Department, U.C. San Diego; John Knapp, head, Library Systems O f­ fice, U.C. Berkeley; and Esther Koch, head, Cataloging Division, U .C .L A . W hile the LC-M ARC operations are being established, the center will plan the expan­ sion of its operations to include the approxi­ mately 800,000 titles in the recently converted U.C. Union Catalog Supplement 1 9 6 3 -6 7 data base, as well as the support of original con­ version to machine form of records not found in these existing files. • C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y L i b r a r i e s h merged two previously separate interlibrary loan units within its reference department. The as former Interlibrary Service (lending and pho­ toduplication) and the Bibliographic and R ef­ erence Center were combined on October 1 to create a new unit— Interlibrary Lending and Cooperative Reference Services ( ILA CO RS). The distinctive services performed by each of the previous sections will be continued in the merged unit although with less duplica­ tion of effort than formerly. The Bibliographic and Reference Center, which is funded by the South Central Research Library Council, will retain its identity in the new ILA C O RS unit, and continue all of its present activities for member libraries: transmitting N Y SIL L (N ew York State Interlibrary L oan) requests; sup­ plying fast-service photocopy; answering refer­ ence questions; and supplying catalog card copy. The lending and photoduplication sec­ tion will continue to be responsible for filling photocopy and loan requests which are sent to Cornell University libraries from outside the university. This includes Cornell’s con­ tract with N YSILL. • P rinceton U niversity’s G e s t O r ie n t a l L i ­ b r a r y , now num bering m ore than a qu arter- m illion volum es, has m oved to m odern, ex­ panded fa cilities in P alm er Hall. T h e m ove is th e first phase of a rearrangem en t o f th e P rin ce­ ton lib rary w hich w ill lo ca te P rin ceto n ’s ex­ tensive A rab ic, Persian, and T urkish c o lle c­ tion, as w ell as th e E a s t Asian co llection , in the co nn ectin g buildings housing the facu lty offices and classrooms used by scholars and students in the E a s t Asian and N ear E a ste rn fields. Housed fo r the past tw en ty-fou r years in in ­ creasingly-cram ped qu arters in the Harvey S. Firesto n e M em orial L ib ra ry , the G e st C o llec­ tion is now reopened to readers on th e second and third levels of Palm er H all. O ccupying some 15,000 square fe e t o f floor space in the w est and cen tral portions o f th e bu ild ing the G est L ib ra ry offers op en-stack access to books in the C hin ese, Jap anese, and K orean lan­ guages. • The Health Sciences Library of the U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f W a s h i n g t o n has moved into its new quarters which occupy approximately 50,- 000 net square feet in the new teaching in­ crement of the Health Sciences Center. The expansion from 20,000 square feet will allow the library to increase its capacity from 120,000 volumes to 235,000 volumes and the number of reader stations from less than 300 to about 950. W hen completely furnished, approximate­ ly 400 carrels will be available, 20 group study rooms, a public lounge with easy chairs and sofas and exhibit space, 2 A/V rooms, a typing room, and a 24-hour study facility. Carrels are to be equipped with power outlets for A/V equipment, as will the group study rooms, some of which will also have T V monitors. In addition to the Reserve Room on the third 291 TH E INDISPENSABLE BASIC BESEARCH TO O L FOR… historians archivists studying the first century of Ameri­ of collections containing supple­ can expansion, the development of m entary land records, surveys, federal land policy, or local history b o u n ty-la n d w arrants, or early genealogists deeds land-title searchers seeking precisely to locate migra­ ting persons west of the Appala­ or county recorders chians, their East Coast origins and of deeds evidence of possible Revolutionary wishing to establish the first link War military service (the land patent) in chain of title librarians to specific land tracts holding National Archives m icro­ films of General Land Office, U.S. Treasury, or Department of State records FE Cliffo D rd N E ea R l S A m it L h, E d LA itor ND SERIES The FEDERAL LAND SERIES makes available to librarians, h istorians and other scholars a system atic survey of archival m aterials on the land patents issued by the United States governm ent from 1788 to 1810. Of special in ­ terest are a list of grants to refugees of the R evolutionary W ar from C anada and Nova Scotia, the names of C on n e cticu t “ S ufferers” w ho lost property to the British, and som e m ilitary bounty-lan d w arrants issued fo r service during the Revolution. TH R EE-W A Y IN D EX ■ Indexes every nam e e n coun tered ■ Indexes all su b je c t m atter co vered ■ Indexes a ll tract d esigna tions You w ill find the Federal Land Series an indispen sable basic research tool. ISBN 0 - 8 3 8 9 - 0 1 3 8 - 7 (1972) $20.00 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Chicago, Illinois 60611 PICK A SUBJECT … ANY922 SCIENTIFIC SUBJECT … PSI will tell you more about what’s been published on it than any other subject index • Permuterm ® Subject Index is the one guide to the w orld’s current scientific and technical literature that is issued quarterly and annually and covers all disciplines, comprehensively, in easy-to-use natural language. • T h e w o r l d ’s l a r g e s t r e s e a r c h l i b r a r i e s — l i b r a ­ r i e s t h a t h a v e p r a c t i c a l l y e v e r y m a j o r l i t e r a ­ t u r e s e a r c h t o o l p u b l i s h e d — find t h a t t h e P e r m u t e r m S u b j e c t I n d e x i s t h e i n d e x o f c h o i c e a m o n g e x p e r i e n c e d r e f e r e n c e l i b r a r i a n s a nd t h e i r p a t r o n s . • P S I c o v e r s t h e e n t i r e fi el d o f p u b l i s h e d s c i e n ­ t if ic l i t e r a t u r e — o v e r 35 0 ,0 00 a r t i c l e s a y e a r f r o m o v e r 2, 40 0 ke y j o u r n a l s , in al l d i s c i p l i n e s , f r o m al l o v e r t h e w or l d. A n d it c o v e r s it in d e p t h — e v e r y a r t i c l e a n d e d i t o r i a l i t e m, o f e v e r y i s s ue . • T h a t ’s w h y s m a l l e r c o l l e g e , h o s p i t a l , d e p a r t ­ m e n t a l , a n d c o r p o r a t e l i b r a r i e s , t o o, find t he P e r m u t e r m S u b j e c t I n d e x o n e o f t h e i r m o s t v a l u a b l e r e f e r e n c e t o o l s . I t ’s t h e o n e s u b j e c t i n d e x t ha t fi nds t he i n f o r m a t i o n t h e y n e e d — no m a t t e r w h a t t h e s u b j e c t o r d i s c i p l i n e — no m a t t e r w h e r e t he a r t i c l e w a s p u b l i s h e d . • P S I l i t e r a t u r e s e a r c h e s a r e f a s t a n d e a s y , f r e e o f h i g h l y c o m p l e x s e a r c h t e c h n i q u e s . B e c a u s e P S I is a r r a n g e d in e a s y - t o - u s e f o r m a t , w i t h t i t l e w o r d s “ p e r m u t e d ” o r a r r a n g e d i n e v e r y p o s s i b l e t w o - w o r d c o m b i n a t i o n t o f o r m h u n ­ d r e d s o f a c c e s s p o i n t s to m o s t t o p i c s . • B e s u r e y o u r l i b r a r y a nd i t s p a t r o n s e n j o y t he u n i q u e a d v a n t a g e s o f t he P e r m u t e r m S u b j e c t I n d e x , n o t o n l y at a c e n t r a l l o c a t i o n , b u t at b r a n c h a n d d e p a r t m e n t a l l i b r a r i e s a s we l l . F o r m o r e o n t h e P S I a n d w h a ( it c a n m e a n to you , s e n d f o r t h e f r e e P S I b r o c h u r e . T o d a y . Institute for Scientific Information Dept. 12-294, 325 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. 19106, Tel: (215) 923-3300 293 floor and staff qu arters in clu d in g th e R e fe re n c e S erv ic e an d the P a cific N orthw est R eg io n al H ealth Scien ces L ib r a ry offices on th e second floor, th e lib rary w ill hou se D ru g Inform ation, M E D L I N E , and T O X IC O N C en ters as w ell as an In d ep en d en t Stu d y P rogram Room . T h e la tter is to b e used b y approxim ately a q u ar­ te r o f th e in com in g m ed ical students fo r o n ­ lin e access to a com p u ter at O hio S ta te U n i­ versity. P U B L I C A T I O N S • T h e A ugust 1 9 7 2 issue of the list o f G ra d ­ u a te L ib ra ry S c h o o l P rogram s A c c r e d ite d b y t h e A m erican L ib ra ry A ssociation is a v ailab le u p on re q u es t from th e C o m m ittee on A cc re d ita ­ tion , A m erican L ib r a ry A ssociation, 5 0 E . H u ­ ron S t., C h icag o , I L 6 0 6 1 1 . Issu ed sem ian nu al­ ly b y th e A L A C o m m ittee on A ccred itation , th e official lis t gives th e nam e and address of e a c h lib rary school offering an accre d ite d p ro ­ gram , th e n am e o f th e dean or d irector, and th e n am e o f th e d eg ree to w h ich th e a ccred ited program leads. L ib ra ry schools offering doctoral and p o st-m aster’s sp ecialist or certificate p ro ­ gram s are so d esignated on th e list. • T h e Rusiness R e a c h e s D ivision o f th e U niversity o f C olorado Sch ool o f B usin ess has prep ared tw o n ew p u b lica tio n s: B ib lio g ra p h y o f 1971 P u blication s o f U niversity B u reau s o f B u siness a n d E c o n o m ic R e s e a r c h an d th e sum m er issue o f C o lo ra d o P o p u la tio n T ren ds. T h e b ib lio g rap h y con tain s 1 ,5 9 3 listings from sixty-one resea rch bureaus and fo rty -th ree schools th a t are m em bers o f th e A m erican A s­ sociation o f C o lleg iate Sch ools o f B usin ess. T h e p u blication s are cross-in dexed b y institu tion, s u b jec t, an d author. T h e b ib lio g rap h y m ay b e ord ered from th e division at th e U niversity o f C olorad o, B ou ld er 8 0 3 0 2 . T h e cost is $5 p er copy. Q ualified ag en cies m ay o b ta in fre e copies o f the p u b lica tio n th a t lists trends from th e D ivision o f P lan ning, S ta te o f C olorad o, 5 2 4 S o cia l Serv ices B u ild in g , 1 5 7 5 S h erm an , D e n ­ ver, C O 8 0 2 0 3 . • F o u r oral history in terview s h a v e recen tly b e e n ad ded to th e series on C aliforn ia-R u ssian E m ig res sponsored jo in tly b y th e C e n te r for S la v ic an d E a s t E u ro p ea n S tu d ies and th e R e ­ gional O ral H istory O ffice o f th e B a n c ro ft L i ­ brary. T h e s e in terview s, like th e seven p rod uced earlier, c a p tu re on ta p e and tran scrip t th e m em ­ oirs o f life an d ed u cation in prerevolu tion ary Russia, sp ecific events d uring th e R evolu tion , and ev en tu al escap e. T h e y are aug m ented b y 294 th e C alifom ia-R ussian E m igré C ollection of p a­ pers. in th e B an croft L ibrary, U niversity of California at Berkeley. R ich ard A. P ierce, author and Russian His­ tory specialist, now on the teach in g staff of Q ueen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Boris Raym ond ( R om an off), on the faculty of th e U niversity of M anitoba, in W innipeg, Canada, conducted the interview s. Bound, indexed copies o f the transcripts are available for scholarly research a t the B an croft L ibrary, and the C en ter for Slavic and E a s t E u rop ean Studies, both U C B erkeley, and the D epartm ent o f Special Collections L ibrary, U niversity o f California a t Los Angeles. I t is possible to arrange for deposit of a spe­ cific interview in a library holding other m a­ terials on the sam e su b ject. T h e receiving de­ pository will be charged th e cost of reproduc­ ing the interview. F o r fu rther inform ation about these inter­ views, con tact M s. W illa Baum , D epartm ent H ead, R egional O ral History Office, Room 4 8 6 , T h e B a n cro ft L ibrary, U niversity of C alifornia, B erkeley, C A 9 4 7 2 0 . • A study of the effects of abolishing fine for overdue m aterials has b een com pleted by R o b ert S. M eyer, library consultant. T h e sixty- four-page final report, T w o F in eless Y ears: A History, Analysis, a n d E valuation , was p re­ pared for the Alam eda County (C a lifo rn ia ) L ib rary System, w hich discontinued charging fines in Ju n e 1970. T h ree primary sources o f inform ation w ere used: ( a ) interviews w ith Alam eda County L ibrary staff, ( b ) a search o f the professional literature of the past ten years, and ( c ) the library’s file o f reports, m em oranda, correspon­ d ence, and newspaper clippings on the sub­ je c t. T h ere is a bibliograp hy of seventy-seven items that w ere quoted in the study. A ltogeth­ er, this report accum ulates the experience of tw enty-six different libraries th a t have tried a fine-free operation, w ith their pro-and-con eval­ uations of th e m any consequences th a t result­ ed from it. A fter discussing the various purposes for w hich libraries have instituted fines, and the arguments th at have been offered for abolish­ ing them , the m ajor portion of th e report deals w ith the actu al effec ts of operating under a no- fines policy, in six categ ories: use o f the library, th e library’s collection, the library’s clientele, fairness to patrons, the library’s im age and role, and th e costs o f library operation. T h e good showing of a fine-free operation in m any o f these areas w ill b e of interest to librarians, trustees, and governm ent officials. T h e report is available from R o b ert S. M eyer & Associates, Box 2 0 2 8 D ollar R an ch Station, W aln u t C reek, C A 9 4 5 9 5 , for $ 2 .2 5 to cover preparation, tax, and postage. s • T h e Union L ist o f Scientific an d T e c h ­ nical Serials in th e University o f M ichigan L i­ brary, seventh edition, is now available. I t in­ cludes more than 2 6 ,0 0 0 titles drawn from the holdings of tw enty-four of the libraries in the University o f M ichigan library system. E a ch title entry gives the official m ain entry, library location, holdings, and call number. Som e 7 ,2 0 0 cross references have also b een provided to as­ sist users. All new entries and corrections sub­ m itted to the editorial staff through M arch 31, 1 9 7 2 have been included. T h e seventh edition, w hich is in two volumes, m ay b e purchased for $ 1 2 .5 0 per set from : C urrent E xpense Division Adm inistrative Services D epartm ent Room 1, G raduate L ibrary T h e U niversity of M ichigan Ann Arbor, M I 4 8 1 0 4 ■ ■ T h e C H O IC E E ditorial Board has re­ quested that th e follow ing letter b e pub­ lished. T h e editors o f the C R L pu blica­ tions would like to echo these senti­ ments. D ear A C R L M em bers: T h e C H O IC E m agazine Editorial B oard is pleased th at th e controversy surrounding P eter D oiron was finally set­ tled am icably at the Ju n e A LA Con­ ference. W e are also very pleased over the appointm ent of D r. R ich ard Gardner as th e new editor o f C H O IC E , effective in O ctober. W e would like to pu blicly p ay trib ­ ute to th e staff o f C H O IC E who con­ tinued, under very difficult circum stances, to not only get the m agazine out on tim e ea ch m onth b u t to also uphold its high production and editorial standards. F o r over one year th e staff had to op­ erate in a clim ate of tension and un­ certainty. F o r m uch o f this tim e the staff was also very m uch under its nor­ m al strength in numbers. T h ey have done an excellent jo b and deserve our thanks and appreciation. G eorge S. Bobinski D ean, School of Inform ation and L ibrary Studies SU N Y, Buffalo