ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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N e w s F rom  th e  F ie ld
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

• The Library of Congress has acquired 
an autograph letter of Benjamin Franklin, writ­
ten August 15, 1765 in London to Francis 
Hopkinson in Philadelphia. Apparently unpub­
lished and unknown, the letter was obtained 
through the Heineman Foundation for Re­
search, Educational, Charitable and Scientific 
Purposes, Inc. All of the letter is of major sig­
nificance, but the reference to the armonica, 
an invention of Franklin, is doubly so.

•  Dr. Lawrence W. Towner, director and li­
brarian of the Newberry Library, has an­
nounced the acquisition by the library of a 
long-missing manuscript of Wolfgang Amadeus 
Mozart. The work is a soprano concert aria, 
Conservati fedele, Köchel listing no. 23. The 
manuscript comes to the Newberry through the 
bequest of Mrs. Claire von der Marwitz, who 
died in 1967. She will be remembered by opera 
specialists as Claire Dux, a leading Mozart per­
former of the early years of the century. Her 
bequest to the Newberry specifically comprises 
her music, and also includes such items as a 
first edition of Schubert’s Winterreise along 
with the scores which she used in her musical 
career. The manuscript now joins other Mozart 
autographs which she presented to the New­
berry, including the Kontretänze, K. 610.

• Mrs. James H. Townsend and Mrs. John 
Gallishaw have given a substantial collection of 
Robert Frost material to Lamson library, Plym­
outh State College. Included are letters 
from Robert Frost to Mrs. George Browne, 
friend and confidante of Frost and father of 
the donors, prepublication typescripts of various 
poems by Frost, autographed first editions of 
several of his books, unpublished photographs 
taken at Franconia, New Hampshire, and mis­
cellaneous other material by or about Frost.

• On Saturday, October 19, the unveiling of 
the inscription—“In Memory of John Quinn”— 
on the benefactors’ pylons in the main lobby of 
the Fifth Avenue library opened the ceremony 
which marked the official announcement of the 
gift to the New York Public Library’s man­
uscript division of the John Quinn Memorial 
Collection. The collection holds the personal 
correspondence which Quinn wrote and re­
ceived from about 1900 until his death in New 
York City at the age of 55 in 1924. The donor, 
Mary Anderson Conroy, Quinn’s niece and god­
daughter, was the principal participant at the 
ceremony together with her husband, Dr. 
Thomas F. Conroy.

The Library first received Quinn materials 
in 1936. Under Quinn’s will, Mrs. Jeanne Rob­

ert Foster edited a transcribed selection from 
his personal correspondence for deposit in the 
Library. In 1962, Mrs. Conroy began system­
atically to give to the Library sections of her 
uncle’s correspondence including the originals 
of the transcriptions. The John Quinn Memori­
al Collection consists of 72 letterfile boxes, 16 
folders, and some 30 letterpress copy books 
representing thousands of letters, notes, tele­
grams, and cables reflecting Quinn’s years of 
friendship with members of the Irish Literary 
Revival, the artists of The Paris School, and 
English and American writers whose work he 
advanced through his financial patronage.

•  The director of libraries of Kent State 
University, Hyman W. Kritzer, has announced 
the acquisition through purchase and gift of 
the definitive collection of Raymond Chandler 
formed by Professor Matthew J. Bruccoli. Ray­
mond Chandler, best known as the author of 
The Big Sleep, has been called the Shakespeare 
of detective writers; and his work has been 
highly esteemed in Europe, where he is re­
garded as a major author.

The 250 volume collection of Chandler’s 
works is supplemented by Professor Bruccoli’s 
collections of American hard-boiled writers. 
Professor Bruccoli, a leading bibliographer and 
authority in American literature, compiled Ray­
mond Chandler: a Check List published by 
the Kent State University Press in 1968. Half 
of the collection acquired was donated by 
Professor Bruccoli in honor of the Kent State 
University libraries forthcoming celebration to 
mark the acquisition of its 500,000th volume.

•  The University of Pittsburgh has re­
cently purchased a collection of books and 
papers of the late Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a 
contemporary Spanish writer. The collection in­
cludes the only existing copies of several works, 
first editions of all but two of the novelist- 
essayist’s works, original manuscripts for seven 
unpublished works, notes for revising eight 
published works, manuscripts of eight projected 
or incomplete works, correspondence, offprints 
of newspaper articles and reviews, and a col­
lection of 500 articles.

• Lab Band director Leon Breeden and mu­
sic librarian Vernon Martin of the North 
Texas State University announced the pur­
chase of a collection of books, recordings, tapes 
and discographies of the work of jazz musician 
Duke Ellington. The collection was acquired 
from the widow of Houston attorney Rhodes 
Baker, an ardent jazz buff and collector of 
Ellington’s works. The collection, amounting to 
approximately 600 78 rpm records and 400 LP, 
45 rpm records, transcriptions and tapes of re­



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hearsals, broadcasts and interviews, will be 
stored in the music library at NTSU. Additional 
material, such as the biographies and discog­
raphies, will be added to the music research 
library.

A W A R D S , G IF T S , G R A N T S
• The British Office for Scientific and Tech­

nical Information has awarded a grant to the 
College of Librabianship, Wales, to investi­
gate the relative performance of four indexing 
systems in the field of library science and 
documentation. The project is being directed by 
A. C. Foskett of the Department of Informa­
tion Retrieval Studies. The indexing systems 
being compared are:
1. the SMART computer system. This uses the 

natural language of documents abstracts and 
requires no intellectual effort on the part of 
the indexer. Professor G. Salton of Cornell 
University, has agreed to cooperate by run­
ning searches on SMART.

2. a post-coordinate keyword system. This will 
involve the use of optical-coincidence cards. 
A thesaurus for the system will be con­
structed in collaboration with Aslib.

3. a faceted classification. The classification to 
be used is one developed by the Classifica­
tion Research Group.

4. relational indexing. This will involve the use 
of the same terms as the faceted classifica­
tion, but they will be linked by the nine re­
lations between terms developed by J. E. L. 
Farradane at City University, London.
•  Information Dynamics Corporation

(IDC) of Reading, Massachusetts, has been 
awarded a $75,000 contract by the U.S. Of­
fice of Education, to conduct a study which 
will provide the library and information services 
community with an in-depth analysis and his­
tory of the experience the Federal Govern­
ment has had in automating library and in­
formation services. The work on the contract 
will be performed by IDC’s Washington Di­
vision located in Bethesda, Maryland. The 
Federal Library Committee, through its task 
force on automation, is serving as an advisory 
committee for the project.

• The National Book Committee, Inc., 
has received a grant of nearly $250,000 from 
the Bureau of Research of the U.S. Office of 
Education for the first phase of a four-stage, 
nationwide project designed to help develop 
the facilities, procedures, and programs of edu­
cational media selection centers. Ultimately the 
project is intended to reinforce educational ex­
cellence in the Nation’s elementary and sec­
ondary schools by demonstrating a variety of 
ways “to put the best educational resources, 
ideas and innovations within the reach of stu­
dents, their teachers and librarians,” according 
to Mason Gross, President of Rutgers, the

State University of New Jersey, and a vice 
chairman of the National Book Committee.

As proposed, the Educational Media Selec­
tion Centers Project will be carried out in four 
related, successive stages over a 7/1-year period. 
Phase I, now funded and underway, is an 18- 
month survey and study of centers already 
being operated at national, regional, state and 
local levels. The report will provide the basis 
for Phase II—the creation of guidelines sug­
gesting standards for comprehensive education­
al media selection centers. Phase III calls for 
encouraging implementation of the guidelines 
by establishing model or “demonstration” fa­
cilities in a variety of locations and administra­
tive situations, and Phase IV will be devoted 
to evaluating demonstration centers and dis­
seminating results to librarians, educators, and 
related organizations through a coordinated 
communications network of publications and 
films.

•  Professor Matthew J. Broccoli has assigned 
the royalties from a recent work, The Profes­
sion of Authorship in America, 1800–1870, 
by William Charvat, to the Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries to expand the William Char­
vat Collection of American Fiction, one of the 
largest of early American fiction. In this book, 
published by the Ohio State University Press, 
Professor Broccoli has collected and edited the 
unpublished writings of the late Professor 
Charvat, a member of the English department 
of the Ohio State University from 1944 to 1966.

B U I L D I N G S
• Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes and Sen­

ator Mark Hatfield of Oregon were the chief 
speakers at a ceremony October 4 in Fremont, 
Ohio, dedicating two new wings of the 
Rutherford B. Hayes State Memorial Li­
brary and Museum. Of the two new extensions 
of this Presidential library, directed by W att P. 
Marchman, one is a library wing encompassing 
three stack floors to house books on Hayes 
and Ohio history and the Hayes Papers, and 
the other is a museum wing enhancing the 
memorial’s facilities for exhibits on the life of 
Hayes, the Hayes family, and on the back­
ground and times of Ohio’s second President.

• The library facilities of Union College, 
Lincoln, Nebraska, have been increased by a 
new addition joining the former library build­
ing and the music hall. New quarters include 
library entrance and circulation desk, reference 
area, card catalog and lounge area, and addi­
tional offices, workrooms, reader space, stacks 
and study carrels. The second floor includes a 
choral room, classroom, and faculty offices for 
the music department. The addition increased 
the library’s total floor space by 8,622 square 
feet, bringing the total floor space to 28,414 
square feet.



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From Mercurii s M rs ic u s . 1669,  
to Esquire, 1967. 

Periodicals, periodicals, and more
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Chinese, Russian, govern­
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M E E T I N G S
Jan. 8–10: International Conference of ad­

ministrators of colleges, universities, junior col­
leges, and independent schools at the Ameri­
cana Hotel in New York City. The theme of 
this conference is “Challenging a New Future” 
and its goal is to promote an interchange of 
ideas and experiences among the leaders of 
the higher and independent educational sys­
tems of the United States, Canada, and other 
nations of the world.

Jan. 27–June 5: Institute in information 
science, University of Southern California. 
Participants will be admitted on a highly se­
lective basis. Each person will be paid $75 
per week, with $15 per week for each de­
pendent. Persons who are admissable and 
who wish credit may earn from nine to twelve 
units of course credit during the semester. 
Further information about this institute may 
be obtained by writing to: The Dean, School 
of Library Science, University of Southern 
California, Los Angeles, California 90007, 
Telephone: (213) 746-2548.

Feb. 10–11: Institute in Cleveland jointly 
sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­
tion Systems Office, the Division of Library 
Automation of ALA, and Case Western Re­
serve University school of library science to ex­
plain the organization and use of LC’s MARC 
magnetic tapes which became available for dis­
tribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is di­
rected at catalogers, acquisitions librarians, 
heads of these departments, data processing li­
brarians and heads of technical processes. Reg­
istration is limited to 100. Send name and 
address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, Ameri­
can Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­
cago, 111. 60611, with fee of $43.

Mar. 24–25: Institute in Los Angeles jointly 
sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­
tion Systems Office, the Division of Library 
Automation of ALA, and UCLA libraries to 
explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC 
magnetic tapes which became available for dis­
tribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is 
directed a t catalogers, acquisitions librarians, 
heads of these departments, data processing 
librarians and heads of technical processes. 
Registration is limited to 100. Send name and 
address to: ISAD/LC MARC Institutes, 
American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., 
Chicago, 111. 60611, with fee of $47.

April 14–15: Institute in Houston jointly 
sponsored by the Library of Congress Infor­
mation Systems Office, the Division of Library 
Automation of ALA, and the Rice University 
libraries, to explain the organization and use 
of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became 
available for distribution beginning Oct. 1. 
The program is directed at catalogers, acquisi­

tions librarians, heads of these departments, 
data processing librarians and heads of tech­
nical processes. Registration is limited to 100. 
Send name and address to: ISAD/LC MARC 
Institutes, American Library Association, 50 E. 
Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611, with fee of $47.

May 5–9: A general call has been issued 
for “free communications,” or unsolicited pa­
pers, for the Third International Congress of 
Medical Librarianship 1969, in Amsterdam. Pa­
pers should be 2,000 to 2,500 words long and 
may be submitted in one of the five Congress 
languages—English, French, German, Russian, 
and Spanish. Each paper should be accompa­
nied by an abstract of not more than fifty 
words in English. October 15, 1968 is the final 
date for submission of papers. They should be 
addressed to the Office of the Secretary-Gen­
eral, Third International Congress of Medical 
Librarianship, c/o  Excerpta Medica Founda­
tion, 119 Herengracht, Amsterdam, The Neth­
erlands. The theme of the Congress is “World 
Progress in Medical Librarianship.” The sub­
ject areas include the contribution of medical 
libraries toward an increase of biomedical 
knowledge; the functions of medical libraries 
in the transmission of biomedical knowledge; 
the functions of the organization of medical 
knowledge: indexing and classification; modern 
information systems in medicine; technical de­
velopments in the medical library field; and 
problems of medical information systems and 
centers in developing countries. There will be 
invited lecturer’s, as well as contributed, papers. 
Registration fee is $50 if paid before January 1; 
$60 thereafter. Registration forms are available 
from the office of the Secretary-General. In ­
formation about special transportation to Am­
sterdam from the United States will be avail­
able from Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The 
Medical Library Center of New York, 17 East 
102 Street, New York 10029, and for Canada 
from Miss Doreen Fraser, Dalhousie University 
Medical Dental Library, Carleton and College 
Streets, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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June 17–20, 1969: Puerto Rico will be the 
site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acqui­
sition of Latin American Library Materials, 
June 17–20, 1969. T he acquisition of Latin 
American scientific and technological materials 
will be the special topic for discussion. O ther ses­
sions will deal with progress made in the past 
year on matters concerning the booktrade and 
acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publica­
tions, official publications, photoduplication of 
Latin American materials, and archives. Meet­
ings of the Seminar Committees will take place 
on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first gen­
eral session will be held Wednesday afternoon 
to initiate committee and progress reports, and 
the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meet­
ings of th e Executive Board of the newly incor­
porated SALALM will be held on the evening of 
Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on W ednes­
day, June 18. Institutional registration in the 
Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes 
preprint working papers only available through 
payment of the institutional registration. These 
papers, including the Progress Report on books 
in the Americas, will be distributed at th e time 
of the meeting to participants and to those 
registered bu t not attending. The registration 
fee for additional participants from the institu­
tion registering is $7.50, and includes preprint 
working papers. Additional sets of working pa­
pers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 
each. The Final Report and Working Papers 
will be subsequently published by the Pan 
American Union. Information on the content 
of the program and working papers can be 
procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne 
National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, 
Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, 
refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta 
Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, W ash­
ington, D.C. 20006.

Oct. 26–30: 68th annual meeting of the 
Medical Library Association will be held at the 
Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Miss 
Joan Titley, director of the Kornhauser Me­
morial Medical library, University of Louis­
ville, is convention chairman. The advance pro­
gram and registration forms will be a part of 
the May, 1969 issue of M L A  News.

M I S C E L L A N Y
•  A recent law enacted in Brazil and pub­

lished in the Diário Oficial of July 10, 1968, 
will be of interest to libraries purchasing Bra­
zilian works for their collections. This brief 
Law 5,471 prohibits the exportation of libraries 
or collections of early imprints and documents 
published from the 16th to the 19th centuries 
( “editadas nos séculos XVI a XIX” ). The pro­
hibition extends to individual publications 
which might have been sold from any library 
or collection which had been broken u p  or

otherwise distributed and to any isolated items 
of this nature. Exportation is also prohibited 
for newspaper runs over 10 years old and of 
musical scores, both original and early copies. 
Violation of the prohibition to export is pun­
ishable, and the materials are subject to con­
fiscation enuring to the benefit of the public or 
national patrimony.

•  The 500,000th volume in the book col­
lection of the library, University of Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara, was presented by the 
Friends of the UCSB library in a special cere­
mony on October 5 following an open house of 
th e library’s new eight story addition to the 
building. The book selected by the Friends as 
the 500,000th was the six folio volumes bound 
in three, Foulis Press, Virgil and Homer, in 
red morocco, extra-illustrated, by Walther, 
Glasgow, 1756–1758.

•  The University of California, Santa 
Barbara, has assembled a definitive James 
Branch Cabell collection for inclusion in its 
Modern Authors Collection. The collection in­
cludes all bu t three of the titles listed in the 
1957 bibliography of Cabell which was com­
piled by Francis Joan Brewer.

•  The American Society for Informa­
tion Science (ASIS) has presented its 1968 
Award of Merit to Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra, m an­
ager of the library and documentation systems 
department of System Development Corpora­
tion, Santa Monica, California. The citation to 
Dr. Cuadra states th at the Award of Merit is 
given him “In  recognition and appreciation of 
his initiative, development, editorship, and con­
tinued improvement of the Annual Review of 
Information Science and Technology, and his 
contribution to improving th e quality and use­
fulness of the annual meetings of the Society.”

•  Richard A. D eGennaro, associate librari­
an at H arvard University, is teaching courses 
in library automation at th e University of 
Southern California while on a one-year leave 
of absence from Harvard. In  the spring se­
mester he will serve as co-director of an Insti­
tute in Information Science for the library 
school.

•  The Alumni Association of W estern 
Michigan University presented the University 
Libraries w ith the facsimile edition of th e G ut­
enberg Bible for the 500,000th volume added 
to the collections.

•  The W estern Michigan University li­
braries are serving extension students enrolled 
in three cities and from three separate univer­
sities. Students from the University of Michi­
gan, Michigan State University and Western 
Michigan University studying in Benton Harbor, 
Grand Rapids and Muskegon can request on a 
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ed to pursue their studies. A speedy delivery sys­
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The installation of the teletype system con­
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library, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001.

• Janiece F usaro, librarian at Anoka-Ram­
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• Alfred University’s executive trustee 
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Memorial library and at the library of the 
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•  Pauline M. Vaillancourt has left her 
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• The University of Rochester’s Rush 
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Rhees and the Rochester Public libraries are 
the two largest participants in the group, which 
also includes the libraries of the Eastman Kodak 
Company, Xerox Corporation, and other area 
colleges. ILN, a project of the Rochester Re­
gional Research Library Council, is made pos­
sible through the statewide Reference and Re­
search Resources program of the New York 
State Library. ILN represents the first formal 
effort of area libraries to share resources in the 
greater Rochester area.

P U B L I C A T I O N S
• The Conference of Jewish Social Studies 

has announced the publication of a Cumulative 
Index of Jewish Social Studies, Vols. I— XXV, 
compiled by Max M. Rothschild. This index of 
authors, subjects, books, periodicals, personali­
ties, locations and institutions, will make the 
entire contents of Jewish Social Studies easily 
accessible to its users. Information on the vol­

ume may be obtained from the Conference on 
Jewish Social Studies, 1841 Broadway, New 
York, New York 10023.

•  The Directory of the Medical Library As­
sociation, compiled to July 1, 1968 lists the ad­
dresses of more than 2000 individuals and in­
stitutions. Individuals are in alphabetical order; 
institutions are arranged geographically and 
telephone numbers are given. In order to pro­
vide an inexpensive mailing list for non-mem­
bers, copies are available from the Medical Li­
brary Association, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chi­
cago, Ill. 60611 upon advance payment of $25.

• A collection of papers on “Expanding 
Communications in a Shrinking World” is avail­
able from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of 
the Special Libraries Association. Separate 
treatment is given to information programs in 
the United Kingdom, Republic of South Africa, 
Italy, Rumania, India and to two international 
organizations—the International Federation of 
Library Associations and the International Fed­
eration of Information Processing Societies. 
Copies of the 54 page, mimeographed docu­
ment are available a $3.00 from the Washing­
ton, D.C. Chapter, Special Libraries Associa­
tion, P.O. Box 287, Benjamin Franklin Station, 
Washington, D.C. 10003.

•  The Association for Commonwealth Litera­
ture and Language Studies at the University 
of Leeds, England, has recently published 
“Indian Literature in English: a Select Reading 
List,” by Sushil Kumar Jain, in their Bulletin 
No. 5 (May, 1968). This work lists over 500 
items written by East Indians in English and is 
intended to be a guide for book selection in 
the university and college library. There are 
two parts to the list: Part I comprises reference 
works, current and retrospective bibliographies, 
general histories, theses and miscellaneous 
studies in the field of Indo-Anglian literature. 
Part II contains works of poetry, drama, short 
stories, novels and autobiographies. Copies of 
the list may be obtained from the Association’s 
offices; c/o  the School of English, University of 
Leeds, Leeds 2, England, at 15 shillings each.

•  The library, on the occasion of its celebra­
tion of the presentation by the Friends of the 
University of California, Santa Barbara, 
library of the 500,000th volume, has published 
with the generous financial support of Mr. Wil­
liam Wreden of Atherton, a portfolio keepsake 
James J. Guthrie and the Pear Tree Press. The 
folder includes a note of appreciation by Dr. 
Donald C. Davidson, an Introduction: “The 
James Guthrie Pear Tree Press Collection in 
the Library of the University of California, 
Santa Barbara,” by Dean Andrew Hom of the 
University of California, Los Angeles school of 
library service, a James J. Guthrie article



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“Transition in Printing” from the original type­
script and a handlist of the University of Cali­
fornia, Santa Barbara, Guthrie Collection by 
Christian Brun. The keepsake was designed and 
printed by Mr. William Horton and his Sun 
Press. Copies are being mailed to the Friends 
of the UCSB library.

•  Xerox Corporation’s University Microfilms 
has been named publisher of The International 
Microfilm Journal of Legal Medicine, a unique 
medical-legal journal which is distributed only 
in microimage form. Sponsored by the Milton 
Helpem Library of Legal Medicine, the journal 
is published quarterly on microfiche. Editor-in- 
Chief of the publication is Dr. Milton Helpem, 
Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New 
York. Annual subscriptions are $17.50; single 
issues $5.00.

• The Harvard Graduate School of E duca­
tion, faced with the problem of improving its 
library facilities, convened a symposium on “Li­
brary Technology and Architecture.” Six “con­
sultants” contributed reports which formed the 
basis for an all day conference. The reports 
and conference transcript have been published 
in “Library Technology and Architecture, Re­
port of a Conference at the Harvard Graduate 
School of Education, February 9, 1967.” (Cam ­
bridge, Mass.: Library, Graduate School of E d ­
ucation, Harvard University, 1968. 51 pp. 
$1.00). Most attention was given to possible 
introduction of new library technology and 
methodology—decision areas which precede or 
should precede architectural design. The con­
sultants whose reports are included were: Carl 
F. J. Overhage, Director, Project INTREX 
(INformation TRansfer E xperim ent), Massa­
chusetts Institute of Technology; Joseph Beck­
er, Director of Information Sciences, 
EDUCOM, ( Interuniversity Communications 
Council); W alter H. Kilham, Jr., O’Connor and 
Kilham, Architects, New York, N.Y.; Richard 
E. Schutz, Director, Southwest Regional Lab­
oratory for Educational Research and Develop­
ment; Richard C. Oldham, Assistant Director, 
Education Division, WGBH-TV Educational 
Foundation; Theodore R. Conant, Executive 
Producer, Education Division, WGBH-TV E d­
ucational Foundation.

•  Brief descriptions in German and English 
of 55 mechanized systems and mechanization 
projects in W est German documentation cen­
ters and libraries are contained in a new pub­
lication: Mechanization in Documentation in 
the Federal Republic of Germany. Third Com­
pilation: Position as at 1st January 1968. The 
entries are arranged by subject fields. Libraries 
are listed separately. There is an index of in­
stitutions with addresses and a person index. 
Copies are available from Zentralstelle für 
maschinelle Dokumentation, 6 Frankfurt am

Main, Holzhausenstrasse 44, West Germany. 
The price is about $2.00.

• The Brazilian Institute of Bibliography and
Documentation (IBBD ) has issued a new edi­
tion of Periódicos Brasileiros de Cultura which 
lists 2,049 periodicals currently published in 
Brazil. To the extent the information was avail­
able to the Institute, each entry includes the 
name and address of the publisher, the year in 
which publication commenced, the frequency, 
and, for appropriate publications, in which in­
dex or bibliography it appears. Newspapers are 
not included, b u t a few of their regular sup­
plements on special topics are. In addition to a 
subject index, there is also an alphabetical list 
of titles with reference to the numbered entry. 
More than 800 Brazilian publications th at have 
ceased or suspended publication or th at failed 
to respond to the Institute’s questionnaire are 
listed separately. The Institute plans to publish 
supplements to this edition containing new 
serial titles, changes of title, publications that 
cease or suspend publication, and revisions, as 
necessary, of entries in the current edition. 
Copies of Periódicos Brasileiros de Cultura may 
be purchased at NCr 10,000 each by writing to: 
Institute Brasileiro de Bibliografia e Docu- 
mentação, Avenida General Juste 171, 4 °. an- 
dar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ■  ■

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
On October 1, the President signed H.R.

18037 (Public Law 90-557), th e act making 
appropriations for the Departments of Labor 
and Health, Education, and Welfare. Included 
in the act is an appropriation of $5.5 million 
for Title II-C of the Higher Education Act.

On October 16, the President signed S. 3769
(Public Law 90-575), the Higher Education 
Amendments of 1968. The law extends Title 
II, Part C (National Program for Acquisitions 
and Cataloging) of the Higher Education Act 
for fiscal year 1969 and the next two succeed­
ing fiscal years. It authorizes an appropriation 
of $6 million for fiscal year 1969 and $11 mil­
lion for the next two years. In addition, this 
section of the Act was amended so as to give 
the Librarian of Congress authority to:
1. purchase additional copies of a single title 

of a book acquired through the Title II-C 
program.

2. provide not only cataloging information 
about currently acquired materials b u t also 
other aids to higher education, such as bib­
liographies, indexes, guides and union lists, 
describing not only current books b u t other 
important materials essential to research.

3. pay administrative costs of cooperative ar­
rangements for acquiring for institutions of 
higher education or combinations thereof, li­
brary materials not readily obtainable out­
side the country of origin. ■  ■