ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 141 Christopher W right Assistant Director A L A Washington Office Despite caustic observations from White House staff about congressional schedules, the House and Senate are in fact working at break­ neck speed this spring. ALA and the administration have already Inside Washington told the two appropriations subcommittees their conflicting stories about the need for federal li­ brary money, and action on a bill appropriating FY 1976 funds for education programs is immi­ nent. Indeed, events are moving so quickly the congressional staff predict that money may get appropriated even before the fiscal year begins! However, with library funding the topic of the hour in the ALA Washington Office, any­ thing said in print today is likely to be changed by a conversation tomorrow. Therefore we ask your indulgence for one month while we wrestle with our numbers. ■■ News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The papers of the late Whitney M. Young, Jr., the civil rights leader, have been presented to Columbia University, it was announced re­ cently. In recognition of this gift from his widow and the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memori­ al Foundation, Columbia has renamed the li­ brary of its School of Social Work in Mr. Young’s honor. The receipt of the papers makes Columbia the center for research on Mr. Young and his work in the civil rights movement. The Young papers, 100,000 items covering the period from 1958 to his death in 1971, fo­ cus primarily on his activities in the Urban League. The papers’ documentation of Mr. Young’s tenure as executive director of the Ur­ ban League from 1961 to 1971 is particularly significant for Columbia because of the historic tie between the University and the Urban League. The concept for the establishment of the Urban League in 1911 came from faculty members and students of the New York School of Philanthropy, predecessor of Columbia’s School of Social Work. The papers also cover Mr. Young’s involve­ ment in a multitude of causes and events, in­ cluding poverty, planned parenthood, law en­ forcement, black business meetings, a White House conference, and congressional hearings. “In adding the Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers to its manuscript collections, Columbia helps perpetuate the achievements and aspirations of a great American,” said Dr. William J. McGill, president of Columbia. “We welcome the pa­ pers because of their singular value as a re­ source for scholars and students concerned with the substance and process of social change in twentieth-century America.” • The Alfred C. Berol Lewis Carroll Collec­ tion has been donated to the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University by Mrs. Alfred C. Berol and her son, Kenneth R. Berol. Assembled over several decades by the late Alfred C. Berol, this collection of the books, letters, manuscripts, and photographs of Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) is undoubtedly one of the finest of its kind. All of Carroll’s exten­ sive and varied production is present, usually with presentation inscriptions from the author. The collection contains an example of the fa­ mous 1865 “suppressed” edition of Alice in Wonderland in proof copy. There are no less than eight presentation copies of The Hunting of the Snark. A special section is devoted to translations of Alice into foreign languages, some 40 volumes ranging from Russian through Swahili to Esperanto. The many manuscripts include an early volume called Useful and In ­ structive Poetry with colored illustrations. Car- roll’s letters, which approach 500 in number, include several long and important series, among them 28 to Mary Dodgson and 48 to Gertrude Chataway. There are also many sig­ nificant letters to Carroll. Of particular interest are the 75 photographs taken by Carroll, who is now recognized as one of the great early mas­ ters of the art. The acquisition of this collection makes the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library a major center for Lewis Carroll studies, especially as the collec­ tion also includes many documents he contrib­ uted to the field of mathematics-—Dodgson’s basic profession. • The late comic actor Billy De Wolfe’s per­ sonal collection of stage, screen, and television 142 memorabilia has been donated to Special Col­ lections at the University of Southern Cali fornia. The unique collection which documents his half-century love affair with entertainment in­ cludes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings dat­ ing back to his first professional engagements in 1925. Stills and candid photographs illustrate his backstage life as well as his film and television performances in Dixie (1942), Blue Skies (1946), Tea for Two (1950), Lullaby of Broadway (1951), and “The Doris Day Show” for CBS. The collection also includes the costume props Mr. De Wolfe used to create his most un­ forgettable character, Mrs. Murgatroyd, the frumpy, middle-aged teetotaling housewife who spends her anniversary drowning her sorrows in the corner tavern. • Among the sixteenth-century continental books acquired this year by the Folger Library ­ D issertation Topics Sought The listing of new doctoral dissertation topics accepted in library and informa­ tion science, routinely published on a quarterly basis in the “Research Record” column of the Journal of Education for Librarianship, is being expanded. The column editor, Dr. Charles H. Davis of the University of Michigan School of Li­ brary Science, reports that additional coverage will be provided at the sugges­ tion of the American Library Associa­ tion’s Committee on Research, the Li­ brary Education Division’s Research Committee, and individuals within the library research community. In the fu­ ture, the column will announce topics voluntarily contributed from programs such as business administration, comput­ er and information science, and educa­ tion, provided that the projects are clear­ ly related to library and information sci­ ence. These announcements, which will include “author,” working title, school affiliation, date of acceptance, and major adviser, will be merged with those al­ ready being received from participating graduate library schools. For ease of up­ dating, the file of dissertation topics is maintained in machine-readable form. Participating schools and interested indi­ viduals are asked to help identify poten­ tial contributors by contacting the col­ umn editor. at the University of California, Berkeley is a slim volume relating to the divorce of Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon. It is the De Causa Matrimonii Serenissimi Regis Angliae and was written by John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, who was Queen Catharine’s confes­ sor. Fisher was the only English bishop to stand firmly against Henry’s machinations to dissolve his marriage in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Al­ though many other Latin tracts written by Fish­ er were printed on the continent, particularly those opposing Luther, for obvious reasons this work could not have been printed in England. The only known edition is this Spanish printing done at Compluti ( Alcala de Henares) in 1530. Before his execution in 1535, Fisher con­ fessed to having written seven or eight tracts on the subject of the divorce, but this seems to be the only printed one extant. In his preface to the reader, the printer, Miguel de Eguia states that he printed it at the order of Alfonso, bishop of Toledo, who had received the manu­ script from Fisher. It is not included in the W urtzburg 1597 edition of Fisher’s Latin works, nor does any modern printing of the text exist. No copy of this work is located in the United States by the National Union Catalog. Another book purchased dates from the first quarter of the sixteenth century. It is the first illustrated book on architecture, and the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius’ De Architec- tura. E dited by Fra Giocondo da Verona, an architect who worked for Louis XII of France, the book was published in Venice in 1511. Vi­ truvius’ architectural work is the only one that has survived from Roman times and it had a great deal of influence on the buildings of the Renaissance. The handsome woodcuts show decorations such as columns and capitals, vari­ ous mechanical devices, and plans for houses and public buildings such as theaters. • Harper and Row has deposited w ith Co­ lumbia University a massive collection of au­ thors’ contracts, letters, and books documenting publishing history in the nineteenth century, a time when the firm’s predecessor, Harper Brothers, was the major publisher in New York. The collection includes the contracts for Moby Dick, Trilby, Ben Hur, and The Ambas­ sadors. The entire collection has been placed in the Columbia Libraries’ Special Collections. It con­ tains more than 5,000 contracts, agreements, and letters, and nearly 3,000 first editions. “The background not only of printing and publishing in New York but of the development of American culture in the nineteenth century will be found in these documents and records,” said Kenneth A. Lohf, Columbia librarian for rare books and manuscripts. “Their availability at Columbia,” he added, “will help assure their 145 usefulness to students and scholars who study rare book experts to be the first book printed in Portugal, and it is certainly the first book printed in Lisbon. Moses ben Nahman, who was born in Spain, ca. 1195, and died in the Holy Land, ca. 1270, was one of the great minds of Jewish scholar­ ship during the Middle Ages. He was a rabbi, a codifier of Jewish law, an interpreter of tal- mudic writings, an exegete, a poet, a philoso­ pher, a cabalist, and a practicing physician. He is known to have authored more than thirty works, of which the commentary on the Penta­ teuch (Perush ha-Torah) is held to be his mas­ terpiece. The first edition of the book was pub­ lished in Rome, about 1480; the volume pre­ sented to the library is the second edition. ( The first volume of an English translation of the commentary appeared in New York in 1971.) Hebrew incunabula seldom survived intact. Natural disasters, persecutions, and censorship left their marks on these volumes: they are usu­ ally water-stained, worm-eaten, and incomplete. The present volume is a rare example of He­ brew incunabula: it is only slightly stained and is almost complete. Fifteen leaves lacking (out of a total of 302) were restored in excellent facsimile, the margins of some leaves were re­ paired, and a number of half-lines were re- the complex relationships among authors, pub­ lishers and printers.” The Harper contracts collection joins the Harper and Row publishing archives for 1935- 1965 given to Columbia in 1972, as well as oth­ er publishing collections at Columbia: the files of Random House, W. W. Norton, Pantheon Books, and M. Lincoln Schuster. Columbia’s re­ search resources in American literary history are among the largest in this country and include the files of prominent authors and literary agents. The Harper contracts now available for re­ search at Columbia cover the period from 1817, when Harper Brothers began publishing, to 1900. The contracts include those with: William Jay in 1833 for a biography of his father, John Jay, first chief justice of the United States and a 1764 graduate of King’s College, Columbia’s name then. Herman Melville for Moby Dick, Redburn, W hite Jacket, Mardi, Omoo, and Typee— “The Melville contracts are national trea­ sures,” Columbia library officials said. Commodore Matthew F. Maury for The Physical Geography of the Sea, the first textbook on modern oceanography. Samuel L. Clemens for publication of his books after the bankruptcy of Clemens’ previous publishing house, in which he had invested heavily. Henry James for The Ambassadors, original­ ly considered unpromising and shelved; it was finally published in 1903, with a chapter unwittingly omitted. In addition, an unusual record of the pub­ lishing history of 3,176 Harper titles from 1817 to 1879 is now at Columbia. It is contained in a leather-bound ledger compiled by William H. Demarest, cashier of the firm for forty-five years, who worked on the book for three years after his retirement in 1877. It is the only com­ prehensive source of information on Harper publishing operations prior to the 1850s, de­ tailing such things as names of printers, type of paper used, advertisements, and number of copies printed. Several fires in Harper buildings in the 1850s destroyed other early records. Contracts survived the fires because they had been kept in a metal chest. Systematic records of printing history began being kept in memo­ randum books starting in the 1850s, and these, too, are now at Columbia. • A gift of great rarity, a Hebrew incunab- ulum printed in Lisbon in 1489, has been add­ ed to the University of Southern Califor­ nia, Los Angeles Library’s Department of Spe­ cial Collections. The volume, a commentary on the Pentateuch by Moses ben Nahman (also known as Nahmanides), is considered by many 146 stored in exact pen facsimile. The binding, nineteenth-century blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, w ith catch and clasp, com­ pletely restored the volume to its original form. The donor of this rare work is Dr. Felix Gug­ genheim, of Beverly Hills. Dr. Guggenheim has been active for many years in international printing and publishing, w ith which he has combined a strong interest in early typography and bookmaking. He has paid special attention to early Hebrew printing, and has been able to acquire for his private collection a number of interesting Hebrew incunabula and other rare publications. • The Special Collections Departm ent of the Library at the University of California, Irvine, has received the Ralph Waldo Gerard collection of papers from his widow. The col­ lection includes over 100 original manuscripts of articles and lectures, as well as Dr. Gerard’s college papers and notes, personal and profes­ sional correspondence, research ideas and notes, draft reports of experiments, papers relating to his many travels and lectures, photographs, awards and memorabilia, and other ephemeral material. Dr. Gerard (1900-1974) was one of the most productive and distinguished neurobiolo­ gists of his time. H e pioneered work on prob­ lems concerning nerve metabolism and nerve conduction, electrical activity in the brain dur­ ing sleep and the nature of brain waves, regen­ eration in the central nervous system, and the action of drugs and hormones on the function­ ing of nerve cells. He was deeply interested in the biological basis of mental illness, particular­ ly schizophrenia, and challenged the accepted CLR A nnual Report A vailable The Council on Library Resources ( C L R ) made twenty-nine new grants foi projects in fiscal 1974 and monitored sixty-nine ongoing activities based on CLR commitments of earlier years, ac­ cording to its 18th Annual Report. Fred C. Cole, council president, ex­ pressed appreciation to the Ford Founda­ tion in the report’s introduction, calling the foundation’s sixth grant to CLR— $6 million for the three-year period begin­ ning July 1, 1974, bringing to $29 mil­ lion Ford’s contributions to the council’s work on behalf of libraries— “particular­ ly notable since it was made at a time of financial stringency for foundations as well as other institutions.” Copies of the 18th Annual Report are available from CLR at no charge. theory that mental disease was purely psycho­ logical and cultural in origin. Dr. Gerard was the author of nine books and over 700 articles. He also served as editor of several scientific journals including the Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Review, and the American Journal of Physiology. Dr. Gerard held administrative posts in both private and governmental institutions. He was chairman of panels at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Office of Naval Research, and was a consultant to the chief of naval research, the Surgeon General, and the National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ ministration. He was elected to the National Academy of Science and the American Acad­ emy of Arts and Sciences, receiving honorary degrees from the University of Leiden (H ol­ lan d ), the University of St. Andrews (Scot­ land), McGill University (M ontreal), Brown University, and University of Maryland. His career centered around professorships at four major universities: the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Irvine, where he served as professor of biology and was the founding dean of the Graduate D i­ vision, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. G R A N T S • The Reference Aids Subcommittee of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) of the University of H a­ waii Library invites application for financial assistance in completing reference tool projects on Southeast Asia. The subcommittee’s primary interest is to encourage and stimulate new ref­ erence tools, such as guides, bibliographies, in­ dexes, handbooks, directories, etc., pertaining to the individual countries of Southeast Asia or to the region as a whole. The subcommittee is interested in providing completion grants to those projects already under way which would require limited support for their completion. The grant is modest, ranging from $250 to $2,000 per award. T he grants are not intend­ ed to cover salaries for the author or compiler, but are designed to defray the costs of typist, supplies, postage, and research materials and the like. Interested applicants should include the fol­ lowing information in their request: 1. The proposed title of the project and the n a m e (s) of the a u th o r(s) /com piler! s ) 2. Statement of the need and the significance of the project 3. Statement of the purpose, scope, and status of the project 4. Methodology or procedure of the project 147 5. Personal background a. A c a d e m ic qualifications, S o u th e a s t Asian experience, and present position b. Linguistic skills c. List of publications of the applicant 6. Proposed budget a. The amount of financial aid requested from CORMOSEA b. Breakdown of use of CORMOSEA aid c. The sources of other aid 7. Plan for publication a. Estimated date of completion b. Commitment, if any, from any publish­ er to publish the proposed work The deadline for the submission of the pro­ posal is August 15, 1975. The awards will be announced in late October 1975. The proposal or request for further information should be ad­ dressed to: Shiro Saito, Chairman, Reference Aids Subcommittee, CORMOSEA, University of Hawaii Library, 2550 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822. • The Maurice and Laura Falk Library of the Health Professions of the University of Pittsburgh has received a $20,000 grant from the Maurice Falk Medical Fund for the estab­ lishment of the F. Sargent Cheever Historical Library Fund. The fund honors Dr. Cheever, who retired last summer as vice-chancellor for the health professions at Pitt and president of the University Health Center of Pittsburgh. The income from the fund will be used ex­ clusively for the restoration, preservation, and improvement of items in the historical collec­ tion and for acquisitions to the collection housed in the Historical Collection Room opened in the library in 1974. The grant was announced by Nathan J. Stark, vice-chancellor for the health professions, and Dr. Carroll Reynolds, director of the Falk Library. In his letter awarding the grant, Philip B. Hallen, president of the Maurice Falk Medical Fund, stated, “The Trustees of the Maurice Falk Medical Fund are pleased to be able to honor Dr. Cheever in this fashion, because of his continued interest in the development of the historical collection.” He also expressed hope that the establishment of the fund will attract substantial gifts from other individuals and groups interested in the history of medicine and the health professions. The library has a substantial collection of his­ torical materials on the health professions, in­ cluding many valuable rare volumes and fac simile reproductions of ancient works, as wel as more modern studies in the field. Among the rare books in the collection are two copies o the 1543 edition of Andreas Versalius’ classic work on anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabri ca, and an incunabulum (a book published be fore 1500): Joannes Arculanus’ Expositio in Avicennae Canonis. The library also serves as a repository for the archives and memorabilia of the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine. Construction of the Historical Collection Room, which opened last summer, was also made possible by grants to the Falk Library from the Maurice Falk Medical Fund. M E E T IN G S May 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic L ibrarians Confer­ ence will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and reg­ istration materials. May 23: The spring meeting of the D ela­ ware Valley Chapter, ACRL will be held at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, at 1:00 p.m. The program, U + SE = R: User + Sensitivity = Relevant Library Service will fea­ ture Alphonse F. Trezza, executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and In­ formation Science, as main speaker. Workshops on the following topics will be held: (1 ) Psychology of Reference Service, (2 ) Making Cataloging Relevant, (3 ) Admin­ istrative Ingenuity, (4 ) Special Needs for the Researcher, (5 ) Book Selection for Whom? and (6 ) Circulation: Friend or Foe? The day will also include tours of the Haver­ ford Library and/or campus, and dinner on campus. For further information contact: Mary L. Walters, Langston Hughes Memorial Li- R eplacem ent C ollection Sought The College of Emporia discontinued classes in January 1974. The institution reopened September 1974 under new af­ filiation and is now known as The Way College of Emporia. In the interim period, all the library books were sold. The Library Search Committee is therefore making inquiries about colleges and academic institutions that have closed or are about to close. Basically the committee is searching for a replacement library with a liberal arts ­ collection. If such a library becomes l available or is now available, please no­ tify the Library Search Committee, f School of Library Science, The Way Col­ lege of Emporia, Emporia, KS 66801.­ ­ 148 brary, Lincoln University, PA 19352; (215) 932-8300. May 27-31: The Middle E ast L ibhahian’s Association will be holding a workshop on Options in Cooperative Middle East Librarian- ship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop is being sponsored by the ACRL/SSRC Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East. For further information contact: John A. Eilts, President, Middle East Librarians Asso­ ciation, Near Eastern Division, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. See the April C&RL News for further details. June 8-12: The sixty-sixth annual conference of the Special L ibraries Association will be held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. The theme of this year’s conference will be "Systems and Networks: A Synergistic Impera­ tive.” For further information, contact: SLA, 235 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10003. June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ tor of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura. ACRL Cassette on Criteria for Promotion and Tenure The second in a series of audiocas­ settes produced and distributed by the Association of College and Research Li­ braries is now available for purchase from the ACRL office. The tape, entitled ACRL Seminar on Criteria for Promo­ tion and Tenure in Academic Libraries, records a meeting, held in the fall of 1974, of fifteen untenured members of the University of Oregon Library Facul­ ty . The meeting was called to discuss, in the frankest possible manner, the ramifi­ cations of recent developments in higher education—e.g., steady-state or declining budgets, tenure quotas, and higher per­ formance standards for promotion and tenure—which would affect the profes­ sional careers of the members present. The discussion covers all the issues in­ volved in full faculty status, with particu­ lar emphasis on its responsibilities. The ninety-minute cassette is available at a cost of $6.50 from the ACRL office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Checks should be made payable to the American Library Association. Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. See the January CirRL News for more information. June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual I nstitute on the Library and the Govern­ mental Process. Conducting the sessions will he Robert E. Frase, consulting economist and author of L i­ brary Funding and Public Support, and Al­ phonse F. Trezza, executive director of the Na­ tional Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Participants in the library science institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate stu­ dents in library science. For more information write: Dept. of Library Science, The Catholic University, Washington, DC 20064; (202) 635- 5085. See the April C&RL News for further details. June 22-25: L aw Librarians. The Amer­ ican Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Califor­ nia. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. June 23-27: Manpoweh Planning. The theme of the 1975 annual management course organized by the London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association will be “Li­ brary Manpower Planning in the ’70s and ’80s.” The course will be held at Woburn, Bedford­ shire. Inclusive residential course fee is $95.00. Full details are available from David Baynes, 61, Crossways, Crawley, Sussex, U.K. See the April C&RL News for further details. June 25-28: “Eighteenth-Century English Books Considered by Librarians and Booksell­ ers, Bibliographers and Collectors” is the theme of the 1975 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference to be held in San Francisco. The preconference is sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Donald D. Eddy, associate professor of English and librari­ an of the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University, is chairman of the Program Plan­ ning Committee. 149 Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­ tive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. See the April C&R L News for further details. June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Col­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues. Further information and registration forms are available from: Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­ tive Secretary, Association of College and Re­ search Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. June 29: The ALA SRRT T ask F orce on W omen will be holding an all-day women’s conference in San Francisco. The conference will include morning workshops on organizing for change, an afternoon panel discussion, and an evening celebration along with an exhibit area for women’s groups and presses. For in­ formation about attending the conference or ar­ ranging for an exhibit contact: Helen B. Jose­ phine, 2569 Hilgard Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709; (415 ) 849-3804. July 1: The Census Subcommittee of the RASD/RTSD/ASLA Public Documents Com­ mittee will be sponsoring a meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on the 1980 Population and H ousing Censuses. The program will begin with a speaker from the Census Bureau, followed by small group discussions and a concluding summary. The Census Bureau is already working on the 1980 official census form; during the group discussion period, each person present will have an oppor­ tunity to make suggestions for additions, dele­ tions, and changes to it. In addition to the form, the committee feels that, as librarians, we should pay special attention to access tools, visual aids, teaching aids, and other reference materials that the bureau could develop or im­ prove. However, all suggestions will be wel­ comed and nothing is too minor. A questionnaire will be sent from the com­ mittee to a sample of reference and documents librarians to determine areas of interest for the discussion groups to concentrate on. Anyone else who wishes, especially if he won’t be at­ tending the meeting, is invited to send sugges­ tions and comments to Ms. Alice Wickizer, Head, Documents, Indiana University Li­ braries, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. July 21-23: A futurist principal of a mid­ dle school, Almon G. Hoye, Anwatin Learning Center, Minneapolis, and an innovative college dean, Robert J. Toft, Grand Valley State Col­ leges, Allendale, Michigan, will keynote the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s tenth annual E ducational M edia and T echnology Con­ ference to be held in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Hoye’s topic “L et’s Do More W ith W hat We Have!” is appropriately aimed at media special­ ists in a downtrend economy. Ten years ago Hoye made a number of predictions concern­ ing what education would be like in 1984. Most of his predictions have become a reality during the first ten years. Toft administers College “IV,” part of a four- year, undergraduate, liberal arts, state-support­ ed college which does not possess a schedule of classes, a time base, a grading system, or a course structure. His topic “Individualized In ­ struction: Implementation Strategies For An Entire College” is based upon his experience of utilizing a curriculum matrix of auto-instruc­ tional learning packages which are entirely self- paced. Further information may be obtained by con­ tacting Dr. David P. Barnard, Dean of Learn­ ing Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, W I 54751. Rare Steinbeck Is Stanford’s Four M illionth The Stanford University Library has acquired its four-millionth book, the com­ plete archives of John Steinbeck’s Can­ nery Row. A gift from Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. Howell and the W. R. Hew­ lett Foundation, the archive includes Steinbeck’s original pencil manuscript, typescript, and galley proofs corrected by the author, in addition to Steinbeck’s own copy of the first edition. The Cannery Row archive has many annotations. On one galley, for example, Steinbeck’s editor has noted the repeti­ tion of a phrase, “time stops and exam­ ines itself.” Steinbeck’s response to the repetition was, “intended—but if it out­ rages the sensitive ear and horrifies the understanding—in other words, if you are afraid of the New Yorker, cut out the second one.” The archive is part of the “rich trea­ sure” of Steinbeck material that went on exhibit at the library on April 6. 150 July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Confer­ ence on Mechanised I nformation Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cran­ field Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bed­ ford, England. The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full de­ tails of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England. August 4-15: The Catholic University’s li­ brary science department’s third annual I nsti­ tute on F ederal Library Resources will be directed by Frank Kurt Cylke, chief of the Di­ vision for the Blind and Physically Handi­ capped at the Library of Congress. The program is open to qualified practicing librarians and graduate students in library sci- W HRC Seeks Support The Women’s History Research Cen­ ter will receive $10,000 in 1974-75 rev­ enue sharing funds if the center can raise $30,000 in donations and standing orders from libraries to microfilm its extensive collection on women and law. As previ­ ously reported in the February 1975 is­ sue of C&RL News, the WHRC has been unable to obtain funds to operate its li­ brary, and the library’s collections are being dispersed. One thousand five hun­ dred of the 2,000 files from the Topical Research Library are at the Archive of Contemporary History, University of Wyoming, Laramie. The center is seeking the $30,000 to complete the microfilm­ ing of the women and law collection so it can be available for anywhere, free, on microfilm before the original files are taken over by the University of Wyo­ ming. Section I of the law collection, Law/General: ERA, credit, divorce, child care, sports, etc., is now available on microfilm at $30.00 per reel from WHRC. Personal donations and standing orders from libraries are needed to sup­ port the microfilming of thirty-two re­ maining reels on politics, employment, education, rape, prison and prostitution, and black and third world women. The Women’s History Research Center, 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 94708 will be grateful for your support and happy to supply further information. ence. Participants in the institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00. For more information contact the Depart­ ment of Library Science, The Catholic Univer­ sity, Washington, DC 20064; (202 ) 635-5085. See the April C&-RL News for further details. August 10-16: L ibrary Administration. An executive development program for library ad­ ministrators will be offered at Miami Universi­ ty, Oxford, Ohio, by Miami’s School of Busi­ ness Administration. The program is designed to assist library administrators in improving their managerial effectiveness. This will be the twenty-first executive devel­ opment program presented by Miami Universi­ ty for library administrators within the last sev­ en years. Because of its emphasis on general management principles and techniques, the program is of value to all kinds of library ad­ ministrators—public, university, special, techni­ cal, corporation, etc. The fee of $295.00 includes all program ex­ penses: tuition, instructional fees, cost of all reading materials and other handouts, person­ alized notebooks, plus room and board. Anyone interested in attending should contact the pro­ gram director: Dr. Robert H. Myers, School of Business Administration, Miami University, Ox­ ford, OH 45056. See the April C&R L News for further details. August 24-28: The Urban and Regional I nformation Systems Association (URISA) will hold its thirteenth annual conference at the Washington Plaza Hotel in Seattle, Washing­ ton. The theme will be “The Role of Informa­ tion Systems Technology in Community Man­ agement.” October 23-26: The Oral H istory Asso­ ciation will hold its tenth National Colloquium on Oral History at the Grove Park Inn in Ashe­ ville, North Carolina. The theme for the colloquium will be “Oral History Comes of Age: The Tenth National Col­ loquium on Oral History.” The program chairperson for the colloquium is Thomas Charlton, Baylor University, and the workshop chairperson is W addy Moore, State College of Arkansas. For further information about the Oral His­ tory Association write Ronald E. Marcello, Sec­ retary, Box 13734, North Texas Station, North Texas State University, Denton, TX 76203. November 9-12: Classification Systems. The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science will hold a four-day institute at Allerton Park, the university’s conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty- 151 five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classifica­ tion Systems.” With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of clas­ sification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Al­ bany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, however, will con­ cern itself not only with Dewey bu t with other major classification systems being used in E n­ glish-speaking countries. A brochure describing the program in detail will be issued in June 1975. Individuals inter­ ested in receiving the brochure and registration information should write to Mr. Brandt W. Pryor, Institute Supervisor, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. M IS C E L L A N Y • The H ans P. Kraus Collection of 162 manuscript items relating to the history and culture of Spanish America in the colonial peri­ od (1492-1819) has been made fully available in microfilm form and may be used by qualified researchers in the Library of Congress’ Manu­ script Reading Room. The original manuscripts will be available only for special research needs. Scholars may order positive microfilm copies of the Kraus collection from the Photo­ duplication Service, Library of Congress, Wash­ ington, DC 20540. The positive microfilm may also be borrowed on interlibrary loan from the chief, Loan Division, Library of Congress. The collection of Spanish-American manu­ scripts was donated to the library in 1969 by Hans P. Kraus of New York City, the well- known collector and bibliophile, and head of the firm Hans P. Kraus, dealers in rare books and manuscripts. The collection includes letters and documents relating to the explorers Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni de Verrazzano, and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Included in the collec­ tion are contemporary colonial writings that document the government of New Spain ( Mex­ ico), the workings of the Inquisition, taxation and economic conditions in the colonies, Span­ ish relationships with the Indians and the French, and the loss of parts of the Spanish em­ pire to American encroachment. • The Asian American L ibrarians Cau­ cus (AALC) is an organization seeking affilia­ tion with the American Library Association and other national organizations. The major pur­ poses of the AALC are to provide a forum for discussion of problems and concerns, the ex­ change of ideas by Asian American librarians, and to recruit qualified Asian American candi­ dates to enter the library/information science profession. Any librarian of Asian ancestry pres­ ently employed in the United States, citizen or noncitizen, may elect to become a personal member of the Caucus. The term “Asian Amer­ ican” will be broadly applied to include anyone who considers himself as such. The newly organized Asian American Li­ brarians Caucus had two planning meetings at ALA Midwinter in Chicago. Both meetings were well attended, and the general enthusiasm indicated the need for such an organization. During the meetings, several working commit­ tees were formed and are chaired by the fol­ lowing Asian American librarians: Constitution Committee (Tamiye Trejo), Publicity Com­ mittee (Ken Yamashita), Program Committee (H enry C hang), Membership Committee (Jan­ et Suzuki), Liaison to other groups (Y. T. F eng), Bibliography (Julie Ho, Susan Tu, Toyo Kawakami, and Momoko Murakami). The AALC needs volunteers to work on each com­ mittee. Please write or contact the committee chairperson or any of the AALC officers. The meeting schedule to be requested for the San Francisco Conference to be held on June 29, 1975 is: Sunday, June 29, 2:00-4:00 p.m., San Fran­ cisco Program Steering Committee Meet­ ing Monday, June 30, 9:00-12:00 a.m., Program Meeting Wednesday, July 2, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Busi­ ness Meeting Thursday, July 3, 10:00 a.m.-12:0O noon, Steering Committee The them e of the San Francisco program will be: “Contributions of Asian Americans to the United States.” The San Francisco program W arning Sticker Offered The U*N *A *B *A *S *H *E *D Librari­ an has designed a special device to alert readers that they may be dealing with outdated materials. An octagonal orange sticker with the warning “CAU­ TION. Information in this book may be out of date. Ask a librarian” is now available through The U*N*- A *B *A *S *H *E *D Librarian, GPO Box 2631, New York, NY 10001. Ten sample copies are being offered at no cost with additional labels costing five cents apiece. UL cites “crunchy times” and the inabil­ ity of many libraries to purchase the most recent editions of given works as a major reason for using these labels. 153 meeting scheduled for June 30, 1975, at 9:00 a.m. at the ALA Annual Conference will be moderated by Dr. Henry C. Chang, library di­ rector, College of the Virgin Islands. The pro­ gram will feature as keynote speaker Dr. Harry H. L. Kitano, professor of social welfare and so­ ciology at UCLA. Other panelists include Pro­ fessor Sucheng Chan, Ph.D., of the Asian American Studies Program, University of Cali­ fornia, Berkeley; Mrs. Julia Li Wu, commission­ er of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (topic: “In Search of True Identity: An Overview of School Library Resources with Reference to Asian Americans and Their Cultural Heritage” ); Mr. Arthur Ignacio, chief librarian of the University of California Department of Ethnic Studies Li­ brary; and Ms. Sunok Chung, library specialist, Orange County Public Library, California. If anyone is interested in receiving any in­ formation regarding the AALC or wishes to volunteer to run for an office of the Caucus, please write or contact Dr. Henry Chang, Kingshill P.O. Box 84, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Is­ lands 00850; (809) 778-1620; or Ms. Janet Suzuki, 5630 N. Sheridan # 1 3E , Chicago, Illi­ nois 60660; (312) 334-6162. • Effective in February 1975, the School of Library Science at the University of South­ ern California will add to its curriculum the degree Doctor of Library Science. The D.L.S. is a professional rather than a research degree as is the Ph.D. The D.L.S. provides librarians with an alternate route to the doctorate. It closely links educational programs to career ob­ jectives and stresses problems of analysis, plan­ ning, and evaluation of library operations. The D.L.S. program is, in particular, directed to­ ward librarians in middle management posi­ tions. Areas of specialization include advanced administration and management techniques, reference and technical services, information science, and others. An applicant to the D.L.S. program must hold a master’s degree in library science from Networks Proceedings N o Longer Available The ACRL office has exhausted its limited supply of copies of the published proceedings of the University Libraries Section 1973 preconference on The Uni­ versity Library’s Role in Information Net­ works. Orders and checks for the pro­ ceedings, entitled Networks and the Uni­ versity Library, are being returned to the sender. a library school offering a master’s program ac­ credited by the American Library Association and must have completed two or more years of relevant professional experience in a library or closely related environment after the receipt of the master’s degree. Prospective students interested in working toward the D.L.S. degree should write to Dean Martha Boaz, School of Library Science, Uni­ versity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007 for further information and admis­ sion materials. • The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science will ask Congress this spring to appropriate the full $3.5 million au­ thorized for a W hite H ouse Conference on Library and I nformation Services in order to expedite conference planning. The commission’s chairman, Dr. Frederick Burkhardt, told participants at the January con­ ference of the American Library Association that President Ford’s signing the White House Conference bill into law on December 31, 1974, now dears the way for conference prep­ arations. The first step, said Burkhardt, will be to as­ semble the names of persons who should serve on the twenty-eight-member advisory commit­ tee on the conference. According to law, the committee will consist of the chairman and at least three members of the National Commis­ sion, five persons designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, five designated by the president pro-tempore of the Senate, and fifteen persons named by the president. Burk­ hardt urged librarians and others concerned with the conference to write their members of Congress and the White House with sugges­ tions of committee members. Outlining the potential budget for the White House Conference and its supporting state con­ ferences, Burkhardt said the commission would ask Congress to appropriate the full $3.5 mil­ lion authorized by the law when Congress con­ siders a second supplemental appropriations bill this spring. The entire sum must be allo­ cated now, said Burkhardt, because work must begin immediately if all fifty states are to plan and hold their own conferences before a White House Conference is held in 1977. “These state conferences,” he added, “are the key to communicating a sense of urgency to the na­ tional conference.” Describing the anticipated timetable for con­ ference preparations, Commission Executive Director (Designate) Alphonse F. Trezza told the ALA meeting that the commission hopes to hire a chief program planner and to add four new staff positions so coordination of White House Conference and state conference activ­ ities can start. T h e I ns titu te for S c ie n tific in fo r m a tio n invites you to tour its fa c ilities during yo u r B icen ten n ia l vis it t o P h lia d e lp hia. ISI® welcomes the many visitors who will be coming to Philadelphia in 1975-1976 for the nation’s Bicentennial. 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Book Tower • Detroit, Michigan 48226 159 As soon as Congress votes for the appropria­ tion, the commission will begin contacting the states through a series of meetings held in the ten federal regions (in Boston, New York, Phil­ adelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, Alaska) late spring or early summer. From these meetings Trezza said he hopes to develop a preliminary document to send to each state giving the basic framework for state conferences. In turn, the states will submit their individual conference plans to the commission based on this format. Trezza stressed that some state conferences must be held before the end of 1975 if all the states are to finish their conferences before the end of 1976. At present the commission antici­ pates the final W hite House Conference will take place in Washington during the fall of 1977. For further information please contact: NCLIS, Suite 601, 1717 K Street, NW, W ash­ ington, DC 20036; (202) 382-6595. • The name of the Card Division of the Li­ brary of Congress was changed effective Feb­ ruary 1 to Cataloging Distribution Service Di­ vision in order to reflect more accurately the di­ vision’s present role as distributor of L ibrary of Congress cataloging in a variety of phys­ ical forms— MARC tapes, microforms, printed catalog cards, proofsheets, book catalogs, and technical publications. The Cataloging Distri­ bution Service Division will be, as the Card Division has been, the channel through which the sum total of the cataloging generated, col­ lected, and assembled at the library is made available to networks, technical processing cen­ ters, commercial processing firms, libraries, re­ search institutes, and individual users in this country and abroad. As the use of Library of Congress cataloging throughout the country has continued to grow, demand for the cataloging data has emphasized the need for primary, bulk distribution rather than secondary distribution in the form of indi­ vidual card orders. In response to this need, the cataloging distribution service will emphasize the initial distribution of the cataloging data base to regional centers and other national net­ work nodes for better library and information service. The change in the name of the Card Divi­ sion does not imply that the direct sale of cata­ log cards to libraries will be neglected. The li­ brary will continue to sell individual catalog card sets to anyone or any organization wishing to buy them, and manpower and funding for this service will be kept as high as the volume of individual card orders will support. The new name of the division will reflect its total respon­ sibility for distributing the cataloging of the li­ brary, regardless of its physical format. The address and telephone number of the di­ vision have not been affected by the change of name. Inquiries formerly directed to the Card Division may be addressed to: Cataloging Dis­ tribution Service Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, DC 20541; (202) 426-6120. • According to an announcement issued by the Committee on Accreditation of the Amer­ ican L ibrary Association, six graduate pro­ grams of library education were accredited by ALA under Standards for Accreditation, 1972 during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chica­ go. The programs are offered by the Division of Librarianship, Emory University (A. Ven­ able Lawson, director); the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois (H er­ bert Goldhor, director); Graduate School of Li­ brary Science, McGill University (Effie C. Ast- bury, director); School of Library Science, Uni­ versity of Michigan (Russell E. Bidlack, dean); School of Library and Information Science, State University of New York at Albany (John J. Farley, d ean); and Faculty of Library Sci­ ence, University of Toronto (Francess G. Hal- penny, dean). • Library administrators and personnel offi­ cers faced w ith the problems of serving Span­ ish-speaking communities will be able to dis­ cuss solutions and meet with prospective em­ ployees at the San Francisco Annual Confer­ ence. A symposium is planned for July 2, 2 :0 0 - 4:00 p.m., and will focus upon the needs and solutions to the special problems involved in re­ cruitment and hiring of Spanish-speaking, or Spanish-surnamed librarians. The program will be sponsored by the Reference and Adult Ser­ vices Division Committee on Library Services N e w Art C atalog A vailable A catalog to commemorate the first ex­ hibition in the new Gallery of the Ar­ chives of American Art, situated on the first floor of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, accompanies the exhibition of letters, photographs, sketchbooks, and other documents of twenty-nine artists from the eighteenth century to the present. In an introduction to the sixty-four-page catalog, G arnett McCoy, archivist, writes: “This docu­ mentation concerns not only artists them­ selves, but the dealers, critics, collectors, curators, art historians, art societies, and museums as well.” Available from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 for $3.25. 160 to the Spanish-Speaking and REFORMA, national organization of Spanish-speaking li brarians dedicated to improving library servic to the Spanish-speaking population in the Unit ed States. Areas covered in the symposium will includ ramifications of civil service regulations in mi nority recruitment, special category funding and academic, school, and public library prob lems in meeting the goals of adequately servin the large Spanish-speaking population in th United States. For further information contact: RASD Com mittee on Library Services to the Spanish Speaking, M artha Tome, Chairperson, Colum bus Memorial Library, 17th & Constitutio Avenues NW, Washington, DC 20006. • Under the auspices of the Copyright Of fice of the Library of Congress and the Nation al Commission on Libraries and Informatio Science, the second Conference on Resolu tion of Copyright I ssues, held among repre sentatives of authors, publishers, and librarians, took place on February 5, 1975, at the Smith sonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The pur pose of the conference was to discuss the ques tions raised by library photocopying of copy righted works and to explore possible solution to the problem. At the first meeting in this series on Novem ber 16, 1974, a working group was created t N ee d a Job? The Cooperative College Registry (C C R) is seeking qualified candidates for library positions. CCR, a nonprofit educational service assisting colleges and universities in their search for faculty, administrative, and support staff, reports that position openings in library science as of February 1, 1975, increased more than 40 percent over the same date last year. This increase in listings, combined with fewer available candidates in li­ brary science, documents an improved job market in the field according to CCR statistics. CCR receives position listings through­ out the year from institutions of higher education ranging in size from small pri­ vate colleges to multicampus university systems. More than 90 percent of all po­ sitions listed so far this year in library sci­ ence were open to candidates at the mas­ ter’s level. For further information contact CCR at One Dupont Circle, Suite 10, W ash­ ington, DC 20036. a ­ e ­ e ­ , ­ g e ­ - ­ n ­ ­ n ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ s ­ o explore the photocopying question in detail. This working group reported back to the con­ ference on February 5 on the results of its in­ terim meetings and recommended: “ (a ) that the Conference investigate the development of workable clearance and licensing procedures, or other procedures, applicable to library pho­ tocopying of periodical and journal articles; and (b ) that the Conference direct the Working Group, or a reconstituted Working Group, to proceed w ith such investigation as rapidly as possible and, in this connection, authorize the Working Group to utilize such expertise as is available from organizations represented at the Conference or such other informational or tech­ nical resources at its command.” In making this recommendation, the mem­ bers of the working group considered “that it was presently impossible to achieve any mean­ ingful consensus concerning the existence of any obligation of libraries to compensate copy­ right proprietors for the photocopies of copy­ righted periodical and journal articles made by libraries for their patrons,” bu t that discussions could proceed with “all parties reserving their respective rights and positions as to the obliga­ tion of libraries to compensate copyright pro­ prietors for photocopies. . . .” Following discussion of the recommendation, the conference adopted the recommendation of the working group. Library photocopying of copyrighted works has been debated for several years. Liability for photocopying under the present copyright law is the subject of Williams & Wilkins v. The United States, a case now pending in the Su­ preme Court. A complete revision of the copy­ right law has been proposed to Congress for many years, and the pending bills, S. 22 and HR. 2223, provide only a partial solution to the question. A National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (C O N TU ) to be appointed by the president was authorized for a three-year period by P.L. 93-573, approved by the president on Decem­ ber 31, 1974. Following appointment by the president and establishment of the commission in the Library of Congress, the commission would further consider the photocopying issue. Additionally, the Senate Judiciary Subcommit­ tee dealing with copyright reform has urged the representatives of affected (private sector) groups— authors, publishers, and librarians—to meet and work out guidelines and licensing ar­ rangements to supplement the proposed statu­ tory provisions in S. 22. The current series of meetings sponsored by the Copyright Office and the NCLIS has been convened largely in response to this congres­ sional suggestion. The conference also considered its relation­ ship to the National Commission on New Tech­ 161 nological Uses of Copyright Works. It was gen­ erally agreed that the conference could poten­ tially assist the commission in its work and that the organizations represented might make indi­ vidual presentations to the president about the composition of CONTU. P U B L IC A T IO N S • The reference department of Wichita State University Library has prepared a thirty- page textbook for a basic course in bibliograph­ ical skills, which the University Library now of­ fers. Entitled The Library Book; A Guide to How Libraries Work, the booklet presents ele­ mentary concepts and structures of bibliograph­ ical organization, such as the Library of Con­ gress Classification, the Library of Congress call number, the idea of a bibliographic tool and of bibliographical identity, library reference ser­ vice and the reference collection, as well as the library catalog. It includes, in addition, a self- guided tour of WSU Library and a short self- test. Not included is material on search strategy and organization of the literature of particular fields, since these subjects are not treated in the library’s basic course. A copy of The Library Book may be pur­ chased by sending a check or money order for $1.00 (handling included) to University Book­ store, CAC Building, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208. • Gale Research announces the publication of three new books: Bibliography of Bioethics, a comprehensive annual listing of English language materi­ als which discuss value problems in biol­ ogy and medicine, is edited by LeRoy Walters, director, Center for Bioethics, the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Bio­ ethics, Georgetown University, Washing­ ton, D.C. Both print and nonprint media are included in the bibliography. Volume one indexes newspaper and journal ar­ ticles, monographs, essays within books, court decisions, state and federal laws, felons, and audiotapes. It is priced at $24.00. Environmental Education: A Guide to Infor­ mation Sources is an annotated compila­ tion of sources of materials, information, and support— educational, consultative, and financial—for environmental efforts at all educational levels. Compiled by Wil­ liam B. Stapp, professor and chairman, Environmental Education and Outdoor Recreation Program, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Mary Dawn Liston, instructor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the guide is the first volume in Gale’s Man and the Environment Guide Series and is priced at $18.00. Guide to Theses and Dissertations: An In­ ternational Bibliography of Bibliographies, edited by Michael M. Reynolds, School of Library and Information Services, Univer­ sity of Maryland, identifies and annotates more than 2,000 bibliographies concerned with theses and dissertations. The book provides a comprehensive list of resources available in individual libraries, informa­ tion centers, library associations, library educational programs, and ERIC centers. It also serves as a finding guide for biblio­ graphic and index approaches to specific subject areas. It is priced at $45.00. For further information on any of the above ublications, contact Gale Research Company, ook Tower, Detroit, MI 48226. • The W om en and H ealth/M ental Health iles collected by the Women’s History Re­ earch Center is now available on microfilm. hirteen reels on physical and mental health, ental illness, the life cycle, sex and sexuality, lack and third world women, plus an appendix f 100 special issues of magazines are available t $30.00 per reel. For further information con­ act WHRC, 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 4708. • The University of Illinois Graduate School f Library Science has recently published num­ er 19 of its Allerton Park Institute Series, en­ itled C ATV and Its Implications for Libraries. The ninety-one-page, indexed volume was edit­ d by Cora E. Thomassen, associate professor n the Graduate School of Library Science at he University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, llinois. The conference theme centered on the impli­ ations of cable television for libraries. The urpose of the institute was to foster greater nderstanding about the subject of cable tele­ ision in the conference participants. Contributors to this volume include: Donald . Mullally, director of broadcasting, University f Illinois; James S. Keller, director, American elevision and Communications Corporation, enver, Colorado; Edward F. Douglass, assist­ nt professor, Department of Radio and Televi­ ion, University of Illinois; Brigitte L. Kenny, ssistant professor, Graduate School of Library cience, Drexel University; Lawrence W. Katz, ttorney, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal ommunications Commission; Ken Dowlin, di­ ector, Natrona County Public Library, Casper, yoming; Roberto Esteves, video coordinator, an Francisco Public Library; Bobby Mariano, egional access director, School of the Arts, ew York, New York; and Russell Shank, di­ p B f s T m b o a t 9 o b t e i t I c p u v P o T D a s a S a C r W S r N 162 rector of libraries, Smithsonian Institute. The volume is available for $6.00 from the Mini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820. Standing orders for the Allerton Park Institute series can be placed at the same address. LC card number for this title is 74-620101, and ISBN is 0-87845-040-8. • A description of the contents of the Ar­ chives of Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation, has been prepared for distribution under the title The Archives of Case Memorial Library. Besides the records of Hartford Seminary Foundation, the archives also contain the pa­ pers of John Clark Archer, Joseph Bellamy, Jonathan Edwards, Jr., Duncan Black Macdon­ ald, Asahel Nettleton, Matthew Spinka, and Henry J. Van Dyke among others. Letters, di­ aries, and sermons reflecting life in many areas of the world are part of this collection of over 200,000 items. This description is available for $2.00 from Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 55 Elizabeth St., Hartford, CT 06106. • The Biomedical Library of the University of Southern California has announced the pub­ lication, in November 1974, of the UCLA Bio­ medical Library Book Catalog, 1972-1974, edited by Ruth C. Traister. Some 6,800 items are included in this computer-generated list, which is issued in two volumes, “Authors/T i­ tles” on 591 pages and “Subjects” on 425 pages. The project for creating the data base, from which catalog cards, acquisition lists, and book catalogs can be produced, has been supported by a grant from the National Library of Medi­ cine. The set of two volumes, 8% by 11 inches in size, bound in paper, may be purchased at $25.00, prepaid, from Book Catalog, Biomed­ ical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Checks should be made payable to the Regents of the University of California. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science has recently published two items in its series of Occasional Papers. Number 115 by Donald G. Davis, Jr., assist­ ant professor at the University of Texas (Aus­ tin) Graduate School of Library Science, is en­ titled Comparative Historical Analysis of Three Associations of Professional Schools. This thirty- nine-page article compares three organizations, one being the library school association, on the following characteristics: (1 ) purpose and goals, (2 ) programs of activity, (3 ) historical development or organization structure, (4 ) de­ gree of accommodation with national practition­ er associations, and (5 ) degree of authority over member schools. Number 116 by Yuri Nakata and Michele Strange is a thirty-nine-page paper entitled Classification Scheme for Illinois State Publica­ tions. Librarians involved in maintaining a separate collection of state documents and also a separate federal documents collection classi­ fied by the Superintendent of Documents clas­ sification scheme will be interested in this pa­ per. The scheme is presented in as complete a form as possible. Yuri Nakata is documents li­ brarian, and Michele Strange is assistant docu­ ments librarian, University of Illinois at Chica­ go Circle Library. Numbers in this series are available by sub­ scription or separately. The two issues cited above are the last in the 1974 subscription, which included five numbers. Annual subscrip­ tions for 1974 or 1975 may be placed for $5.00; single copies are $1.00 each prepaid. $.50 each for orders of ten or more titles. Order from: The Publications Office, 249 Armory Building, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. • The Institute of International and Area Studies, Western Michigan University, has re­ cently published a book entitled Chile and Peru: Two Paths to Social lustice, as a result of a Latin American Conference held March 29-30, 1973. Included in the publication are papers pre­ sented at the conference by several well-known scholars. The contents include: “Peru and Chile: What Do They Imply for the United States?” by Luigi R. Einaudi; “Peruvian Para­ dox: Military Rule and Popular Participation” by William Foote Whyte; “Social Mobilization in Peru” by David Scott Palmer; “Social Re­ form in Chile under Salvador Allende” by Markos Mamalakis; “The Road to Socialism in Chile: Forces in Opposition to Structural Change” by Lynda Ann Ewen; “Agrarian Re­ form in Peru and Chile” by John Strasma; and “Notes toward Understanding the Church in Chile” by Harold Bradley. This publication is edited by Dr. Leila Brad- field, chairperson of Latin American Studies at Western Michigan University. It is a paperback edition consisting of 154 pages and may be ob­ tained from the Institute of International and Area Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, for $3.11 (postage in­ cluded ). • Conservation of Colour Photographic Rec­ ords is a collection of papers read to a London conference in September 1973 and is now pub­ lished by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. This sixty-four-page volume should be of interest to all who are concerned about using and preserving color photographs 163 and color slides. In addition to the papers, the monograph includes specially commissioned re­ ports and a short descriptive bibliography. Prepaid orders of $10.00 may be placed with: ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201. • Teaching Creative W riting, a transcription of the proceedings of the Conference on the Teaching of Creative Writing, held at the Li­ brary of Congress on January 29 and 30, 1973, has been published by the library in paper cov­ er and is available for sale. Chaired by the library’s 1971-73 consultant in poetry, Josephine Jacobsen, the conference convened teachers of creative writing from nu­ merous American colleges and universities. Pre­ senting papers and leading panel discussions were directors of the four pioneer writing pro­ grams in the United States: Elliott Coleman, founding director of the W riting Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University; Paul Engle, founder of the Writers’ Workshop and now di­ rector of the International Writing Programs of the School of Letters of the University of Iowa; Wallace Stegner, founding director of the Crea­ tive Writing Center at Leland Stanford Univer­ sity; and John Ciardi, longtime director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Distinguished graduates of or participants in these programs served as panel members and discussed the dis­ ciplines of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose. Presenting papers and chairing panels were Professor Coleman on “A Perspective of Aca­ demic Programs in Creative W riting”; Profes­ sor Engle on “The W riting of Poetry”; Profes­ sor Stegner on “The W riting of Fiction”; and Professor Ciardi on “Nonfiction Prose.” Dia­ logue w ith the audience was invited following each panel discussion. Teaching Creative W riting is available in person from the Information Counter, ground floor, Library of Congress Main Building, or by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The price of the publication is $1.40. • The 1974 cumulative edition of the Bib­ liography of Alaskana is now available. This is a computer-generated keyword index to the periodical literature about Alaska based on the periodical holdings of the Rasmuson Library. The 200-page publication is priced at $6.00 and inquiries should be addressed to Secretary, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fair­ banks, AK 99701. • The Library of Congress has published Manuscripts on Microfilm: A Checklist of Hold­ ings in the Manuscript Division, compiled by Richard B. Bickel of the library’s Manuscript Division. This publication lists collections on microfilm, most of which are available for loan or reproduction. Over 800 entries arranged al­ phabetically and covering more than 10,000 reels are represented in this checklist. Included are papers of the presidents, records of foreign archives dealing w ith American civilization, and collections of manuscripts in the custody of the Manuscript Division, other repositories, and private hands. All of the division’s collections of presidential papers will be on microfilm when the Thomas Jefferson project is completed later this year. The copying of manuscripts relating to Amer­ ican history in foreign repositories began in 1905. Transcripts, photostats, and enlargement prints were made initially; however, copies made since 1935 are on microfilm. Although there are reproductions from several libraries and archives in twenty-three foreign countries, most are from the countries of Western Europe — especially Great Britain, Spain, and France— whose colonial, diplomatic, and military activ­ ities in North America have resulted in collec­ tions of manuscripts and archives particularly rich in American materials. In most cases the items reproduced from each country are drawn from its principal repositories. The kinds of manuscripts copied are also varied. Most deal with American history in the colonial or revolu­ tionary eras or during the first generation of the new United States. Source material for political and military history dominates, although manu­ scripts of value for research in economic, social, and cultural history have also been copied. In recent years the Manuscript Division has been microfilming selected collections from its holdings for preservation and circulation pur­ poses. The span and nature of these collections are a cross-section of the division’s holdings. Microfilm publications of other repositories are acquired selectively to supplement the holdings of the Manuscript Division. Collections located in private hands are microfilmed selectively for preservation, and to supplement existing col­ lections in the division. Manuscripts on Microfilm is available by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 or in person from the Information Coun­ ter, ground floor of the Main Building of the Library of Congress. 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Indeed, events are moving so quickly the congressional staff predict that money may get appropriated even before the fiscal year begins!However, with library funding the topic of the hour in the ALA Washington Office, any­thing said in print today is likely to be changed by a conversation tomorrow News From the Field ACQUISITIONS• The papers of the late Whitney M. Young, Jr., the civil rights leader, have been presented to Columbia University, it was announced re­cently. In recognition of this gift from his widow and the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memori­al Foundation, Columbia has renamed the li­brary of its School of Social Work in Mr. Young’s honor. The receipt of the papers makes Columbia the center for research on Mr. Young and his work in the civil rights movement.The Young papers, 100,000 items covering the period fro • The Alfred C. Berol Lewis Carroll Collec­tion has been donated to the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University by Mrs. Alfred C. Berol and her son, Kenneth R. Berol.Assembled over several decades by the late Alfred C. Berol, this collection of the books, letters, manuscripts, and photographs of Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) is undoubtedly one of the finest of its kind. All of Carroll’s exten­sive and varied production is present, usually with presentation inscriptions from the author. The collect 142 memorabilia has been donated to Special Col­lections at the University of Southern California.The unique collection which documents hishalf-century love affair with entertainment in­cludes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings dat­ing back to his first professional engagementsin 1925.Stills and candid photographs illustrate hisbackstage life as well as his film and televisionperformances in Dixie (1942), Blue Skies(1946), Tea for Two (1950), Lullaby ofBroadway (1951), and “The Doris Day Show”for CBS.The collect Dissertation Topics SoughtThe listing of new doctoral dissertation topics accepted in library and informa­tion science, routinely published on a quarterly basis in the “Research Record” column of the Journal of Education for Librarianship, is being expanded. The column editor, Dr. Charles H. Davis of the University of Michigan School of Li­brary Science, reports that additional coverage will be provided at the sugges­tion of the American Library Associa­tion’s Committee on Research, the Li­brary Education D at the University of California, Berkeley is a slim volume relating to the divorce of Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon. It is the De Causa Matrimonii Serenissimi Regis Angliae and was written by John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, who was Queen Catharine’s confes­sor. Fisher was the only English bishop to stand firmly against Henry’s machinations to dissolve his marriage in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Al­though many other Latin tracts written by Fish­er were printed on the continent, particularly those oppo 145 usefulness to students and scholars who study rare book experts to be the first book printed in Portugal, and it is certainly the first book printed in Lisbon. Moses ben Nahman, who was born in Spain, ca. 1195, and died in the Holy Land, ca. 1270, was one of the great minds of Jewish scholar­ ship during the Middle Ages. He was a rabbi, a codifier of Jewish law, an interpreter of tal- mudic writings, an exegete, a poet, a philoso­ pher, a cabalist, and a practicing physician. He is known to have authored more than thirty works, of which the commen the complex relationships among authors, pub­lishers and printers.”The Harper contracts collection joins theHarper and Row publishing archives for 1935-1965 given to Columbia in 1972, as well as oth­er publishing collections at Columbia: the filesof Random House, W. W. Norton, PantheonBooks, and M. Lincoln Schuster. Columbia’s re­search resources in American literary history areamong the largest in this country and includethe files of prominent authors and literaryagents.The Harper contracts now available f 146 stored in exact pen facsimile. The binding, nineteenth-century blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, with catch and clasp, com­pletely restored the volume to its original form.The donor of this rare work is Dr. Felix Gug­genheim, of Beverly Hills. Dr. Guggenheim has been active for many years in international printing and publishing, with which he has combined a strong interest in early typography and bookmaking. He has paid special attention to early Hebrew printing, and has been able to acquire for his CLR Annual Report AvailableThe Council on Library Resources (CLR) made twenty-nine new grants foi projects in fiscal 1974 and monitored sixty-nine ongoing activities based on CLR commitments of earlier years, ac­cording to its 18th Annual Report.Fred C. Cole, council president, ex­pressed appreciation to the Ford Founda­tion in the report’s introduction, calling the foundation’s sixth grant to CLR—$6 million for the three-year period begin­ning July 1, 1974, bringing to $29 mil­lion Ford’s contributions to theory that mental disease was purely psycho­logical and cultural in origin.Dr. Gerard was the author of nine books and over 700 articles. He also served as editor of several scientific journals including the Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Review, and the American Journal of Physiology. Dr. Gerard held administrative posts in both private and governmental institutions. He was chairman of panels at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Office of Naval Resear 147 5. Personal backgrounda. Academic qualifications, Southeast Asian experience, and present positionb. Linguistic skillsc. List of publications of the applicant6. Proposed budgeta. The amount of financial aid requested from CORMOSEAb. Breakdown of use of CORMOSEA aidc. The sources of other aid7. Plan for publicationa. Estimated date of completionb. Commitment, if any, from any publish­er to publish the proposed workThe deadline for the submission of the pro­posal is August 15, 1975. The awards will beannounce fore 1500): Joannes Arculanus’ Expositio in Avicennae Canonis. The library also serves as a repository for the archives and memorabilia of the Pittsburgh Academy of Medicine.Construction of the Historical Collection Room, which opened last summer, was also made possible by grants to the Falk Library from the Maurice Falk Medical Fund.MEETINGSMay 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Confer­ence will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme wi 148 brary, Lincoln University, PA 19352; (215) 932-8300.May 27-31: The Middle East Libhahian’s Association will be holding a workshop on Options in Cooperative Middle East Librarian- ship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workshop is being sponsored by the ACRL/SSRC Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East.For further information contact: John A. Eilts, President, Middle East Librarians Asso­ciation, Near Eastern Division, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. See the April C&RL News for further det Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. See the January CirRL News for more information.June 15-27: The Catholic University’s library science department will host the third annual Institute on the Library and the Govern­mental Process.Conducting the sess 149 Further information and registration details can be obtained from Beverly P. Lynch, Execu­tive Secretary, ACRL, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­cago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. See the April C&RL News for further details.June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Col­lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effor braries, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN47401.July 21-23: A futurist principal of a mid­dle school, Almon G. Hoye, Anwatin Learning Center, Minneapolis, and an innovative college dean, Robert J. Toft, Grand Valley State Col­leges, Allendale, Michigan, will keynote the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s tenth annual Educational Media and Technology Con­ference to be held in Menomonie, Wisconsin.Hoye’s topic “Let’s Do More With What We Have!” is appropriately aimed at media special­ists in a downtrend econom 150 July 22-25: The fifth Cranfield Confer­ence on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held at Cran­field Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bed­ford, England.The conference will be fully residential and the cost, including accommodation, meals, and the conference dinner will be $82.00. Full de­tails of the program, together with application forms, are available from Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford MK 43 OAL, England.August 4-15: The Catholic Univ ence. Participants in the institute may receive three graduate credits. Tuition and fees total $215.00.For more information contact the Depart­ment of Library Science, The Catholic Univer­sity, Washington, DC 20064; (202 ) 635-5085. See the April C&-RL News for further details.August 10-16: Library Administration. An executive development program for library ad­ministrators will be offered at Miami Universi­ty, Oxford, Ohio, by Miami’s School of Busi­ness Administration. The program is designed to assist li 151 five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The institute for 1975, the twenty-first in the series, is scheduled to be on “Major Classifica­tion Systems.”With the centennial of the first edition of Dewey’s classification system coming in 1976, the faculty of the school decided to devote next fall’s institute to a study and evaluation of clas­sification systems. The cosponsor of the 1975 Allerton Institute will be the Forest Press, Al­bany, New York, publishers of the decimal classification. The institute, how and to recruit qualified Asian American candi­dates to enter the library/information science profession. Any librarian of Asian ancestry pres­ently employed in the United States, citizen or noncitizen, may elect to become a personal member of the Caucus. The term “Asian Amer­ican” will be broadly applied to include anyone who considers himself as such.The newly organized Asian American Li­brarians Caucus had two planning meetings at ALA Midwinter in Chicago. Both meetings were well attended, and the general 153 meeting scheduled for June 30, 1975, at 9:00 a.m. at the ALA Annual Conference will be moderated by Dr. Henry C. Chang, library di­rector, College of the Virgin Islands. The pro­gram will feature as keynote speaker Dr. Harry H. L. Kitano, professor of social welfare and so­ciology at UCLA. Other panelists include Pro­fessor Sucheng Chan, Ph.D., of the Asian American Studies Program, University of Cali­fornia, Berkeley; Mrs. Julia Li Wu, commission­er of the National Commission on Libraries and Information S a library school offering a master’s program ac­credited by the American Library Association and must have completed two or more years of relevant professional experience in a library or closely related environment after the receipt of the master’s degree.Prospective students interested in working toward the D.L.S. degree should write to Dean Martha Boaz, School of Library Science, Uni­versity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007 for further information and admis­sion materials.• The National Commi The Institute for Scientific informationinvites you to tour its facilities during your Bicentennial visit to Phliadelphia.ISI® welcomes the many visitors who will be coming to Philadelphia in 1975-1976 for the nation’s Bicentennial. 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Inquiries formerly directed to the Card Division may be addressed to: Cataloging Dis­tribution Service Division, Library of Congress, Building 159, Navy Yard Annex, Washington, DC 20541; (202) 426-6120. • According to an announcement issued by the Committee on Accreditation of the Amer­ ican Library Association, six graduate pro­ grams of library education were accredited by ALA under Standards for Accreditation, 1972 during the ALA Midwinter Meeting New Art Catalog AvailableA catalog to commemorate the first ex­hibition in the new Gallery of the Ar­chives of American Art, situated on the first floor of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, accompanies the exhibition of letters, photographs, sketchbooks, and other documents of twenty-nine artists from the eighteenth century to the present. In an introduction to the sixty-four-page catalog, Garnett McCoy, archivist, writes: “This docu­mentation concerns not only artists them­selves, bu 160 to the Spanish-Speaking and REFORMA, national organization of Spanish-speaking librarians dedicated to improving library servicto the Spanish-speaking population in the United States.Areas covered in the symposium will includramifications of civil service regulations in minority recruitment, special category fundingand academic, school, and public library problems in meeting the goals of adequately servinthe large Spanish-speaking population in thUnited States.For further information contact: RASD Committee explore the photocopying question in detail. This working group reported back to the con­ference on February 5 on the results of its in­terim meetings and recommended: “(a) that the Conference investigate the development of workable clearance and licensing procedures, or other procedures, applicable to library pho­tocopying of periodical and journal articles; and (b) that the Conference direct the Working Group, or a reconstituted Working Group, to proceed with such investigation as rapidly as possible and, 161 nological Uses of Copyright Works. It was gen­erally agreed that the conference could poten­tially assist the commission in its work and that the organizations represented might make indi­vidual presentations to the president about the composition of CONTU.PUBLICATIONS• The reference department of Wichita State University Library has prepared a thirty- page textbook for a basic course in bibliograph­ical skills, which the University Library now of­fers. Entitled The Library Book; A Guide to How Libraries Wo the guide is the first volume in Gale’s Man and the Environment Guide Series and is priced at $18.00.Guide to Theses and Dissertations: An In­ternational Bibliography of Bibliographies, edited by Michael M. Reynolds, School of Library and Information Services, Univer­sity of Maryland, identifies and annotates more than 2,000 bibliographies concerned with theses and dissertations. The book provides a comprehensive list of resources available in individual libraries, informa­tion centers, library associations 162 rector of libraries, Smithsonian Institute.The volume is available for $6.00 from theMini Union Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St.,Champaign, IL 61820. Standing orders for theAllerton Park Institute series can be placed atthe same address. LC card number for this title is 74-620101, and ISBN is 0-87845-040-8.• A description of the contents of the Ar­chives of Case Memorial Library, Hartford Seminary Foundation, has been prepared fordistribution under the title The Archives of Case Memorial Library.Besides the rec er associations, and (5) degree of authority over member schools.Number 116 by Yuri Nakata and Michele Strange is a thirty-nine-page paper entitled Classification Scheme for Illinois State Publica­tions. Librarians involved in maintaining a separate collection of state documents and also a separate federal documents collection classi­fied by the Superintendent of Documents clas­sification scheme will be interested in this pa­per. The scheme is presented in as complete a form as possible. Yuri Nakata is docu 163 and color slides. In addition to the papers, the monograph includes specially commissioned re­ports and a short descriptive bibliography.Prepaid orders of $10.00 may be placed with: ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box 3692, Glendale, CA 91201.• Teaching Creative Writing, a transcription of the proceedings of the Conference on the Teaching of Creative Writing, held at the Li­brary of Congress on January 29 and 30, 1973, has been published by the library in paper cov­er and is available for sale.Chaired by the library’s 1971- Division. This publication lists collections on microfilm, most of which are available for loan or reproduction. Over 800 entries arranged al­phabetically and covering more than 10,000 reels are represented in this checklist. Included are papers of the presidents, records of foreign archives dealing with American civilization, and collections of manuscripts in the custody of the Manuscript Division, other repositories, and private hands. All of the division’s collections of presidential papers will be on mi SLIP-ON BOOK JACKETS BOOK OF CLEAR PLAPSTIACProtective PaLl ®enterprisesAttractive lnlli464® grtv,°j" st. lous,mo. 63116 Long-lasting (314) 431-2779 THE AUTHORITY. 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