ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Recent acquisitions of Stanford Univer­ sity Libraries include a complete facsimile edition, consisting of 488 plates in twenty port­ folios, of the drawings in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This collection consists of most­ ly Italian drawings and the periods represented range from the fifteenth to the eighteenth cen­ turies. The importance of the Stanford copy is enhanced by the fact that a number of the original drawings failed to survive the recent Florence flood. The papers of the late J. Arthur Younger (1893-1967), U.S. Congressman from Cali­ fornia’s 11th District (San Mateo County), were donated to the Library in April by his widow, Mrs. Norma Younger, and his daugh­ ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W alter R. Robinson, Jr. Including most of the Represent­ ative’s office files, the papers are of special in­ terest because of Mr. Younger’s role as one of the first proponents of an executive department for urban affairs. • Additions in the past few months to the Special Collection of Modern Literature, Washington University Libraries, are rep­ resentative of the lines of research interest in this four-year-old Collection.. Poet James Mer­ rill has given the worksheets of more than 250 poems, drafts of two plays and nine notebooks, dating from 1948 to 1963, containing drafts of poems, diary entries and notes on his own and others’ work. Novelist George P. Elliott has added the drafts of a group of short stories, an unpublished play, and 25 critical essays, a number of them autobiographical. The 2,000 pages of early drafts and notes by William Gass of his first novel, Omensetter s Luck, as well as 1,700 manuscript and typescript pages which later comprised the book, are now part of the Special Collection. The letters of Tom Clark, poetry editor of Paris Review and a par­ ticipant in numerous small press ventures in England, to his colleague Andrew Crozier are a useful view of that poet’s literary and per­ sonal affairs in Rritain from 1964 to 1967. Rob­ ert Sward also writes from and about Britain in the addition of 325 letters to his papers. Students of the history of contemporary pub­ lishing will find much useful comment on the workings of the private press in new collec­ tions from Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Paul Blackburn, Howard Nemerov and Denise Levertov. Individual manuscripts of Ivy Comp­ ton-Burnett and Jocelyn Brooke have also been acquired, together with typescripts of an inter­ view with Vladimir Nabokov, revised by him. Small collections of letters from Conrad Aiken, C. Day-Lewis and Kenneth Rexroth and Mari­ anne Moore are also new in the Collection, as is a taped interview with Thomas Merton. • The Columbia University Libraries have received recently several notable gift col­ lections. Dr. Corliss Lamont (Ph.D., 1932) has es­ tablished a collection of manuscripts and print­ ed materials relating to the English poet, John Masefield, a friend of the Lamont family over many years. The nucleus of the collection is a group of 99 autograph letters written by Mase­ field, many of which contain critical commen­ tary on his fellow poets, among them A. E. Housman, Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, and Stephen Vincent Benét. Also included are two autograph manuscripts of poems by Masefield, three letters from Judith Masefield, and several printed items pertaining to the poet’s death. W. W. Norton and Company, book pub­ lishers, have presented their files of corre­ spondence and papers covering the early years of the company, 1923-1945. Its roster of au­ thors has included Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Edith Hamilton, Henry Handel Rich­ ardson, John Dewey, José Ortega y Gasset, Aaron Copland, Douglas Moore, Carlos Cha­ vez, Irwin Edman, Paul Henry Lang, Maria Rainer Rilke, and Sigmund Freud, and the collection contains significant files of corre­ spondence by, or relating to, each of them. Mrs. Nina Ferrero Raditsa has added an­ other installment of the papers and corre­ spondence of her distinguished father Gugliel- mo Ferrero. The present gift, numbering more than 6,000 pieces, comprises the incoming cor­ respondence from the early part of this cen­ tury to the 1930’s, and contains im portant let­ ters from Romain Rolland, Paul Valéry, King Albert of the Belgians, Albert Einstein, and Count Sforza. The papers of Lillian D. Wald, relating to the founding and administration of the Henry Street Settlement, have recently been present­ ed by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York through the good offices of its executive di­ rector, Mrs. Eva M. Reese. The papers cover Miss Wald’s participation not only in the Set­ tlement, bu t also in numerous philanthropic and liberal causes, including those in the fields of child welfare, unemployment, immigration, civil liberties, and the Socialist Party. The cor­ respondence files contain letters from public figures and writers, among them Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, Van Wyck Brooks, Henry Ford, Zona Gale, John Galsworthy, Samuel Gompers, William D. Howells, Charles Evans 305 Hughes, Frances Perkins, Dorothy Thompson, Norman Thomas, Ida Tarbell, Margaret Sang­ er, and Jacob Riis. • Through purchase and gift, Kent State University has acquired the entire stock of Gilman’s, a well-known bookseller in Crompond, New York. Gilman’s has been run since 1920 by two brothers, Clarence and David Gilman, in a suburb of Peekskill. The 250,000 volume collection includes many out-of-print and rare books covering all areas with emphasis on lit­ erature and history. The collection will be placed in storage until completion of a new library in the spring of 1970. A W A R D • The New York State Education Depart­ ment, Division of Library Development, has awarded the New York Metropolitàn Ref­ erence and Research Library Agency (M ETRO) a special project grant of $48,- 000.00 to institute a Cooperative Acquisition and Storage Center (CASC). The CASC proj­ ect is designed to facilitate access to materials which are not now available in the area or cannot, for reasons of space, staff, or funds, be made accessible beyond the individual library’s primary audience. It will also obviate the du­ plication of infrequently used materials in li­ braries in the area. B U I L D I N G S • With the installation of the shelving in June 1968, the new Learning Resources Cen­ ter of Monroe County Community College, Monroe, Michigan, was completed. Construc­ tion of the 52,300 sq. ft. LRC building began in 1966 as one of the initial four permanent buildings on campus. Cost of the LRC, includ­ ing site development, was $1,446,021.00. Fur­ niture and equipment in the Library and Au­ diovisual areas only of the building totaled $118,492.38. Currently the LRC contains the library on the main floor; audiovisual areas, in­ structional lab, lecture room, and five class­ rooms in the basement. On the second floor the library maintains a 3,120 sq. ft. reading room; also on the second floor are faculty of­ fices around two walls and nine classrooms. • The University of Pittsburgh dedicated on September 6 its new Hillman Library, named in honor of John Hartwell Hillman, Jr. The building was funded largely through a donation of more than $3,000,000.00 from the Hillman Foundation and an appropriation from the General State Authority of $8,235,- 000.00. The five-story structure, which can house some 1.2 million volumes, contains 255,- 000 square feet of floor space. The first and second floors are primarily for undergraduate services. S M E E T IN G S Nov. 13-15: The Washington University school of medicine will present its fifth Symposium on Machine Methods in Libraries on November 13-15. One session will be de­ voted to a review of the developments of the past five years and a look into the future of machine methods in libraries. Other topics to be discussed will include automation at the li­ braries of the UN, The Royal Society of Medi­ cine, The Upstate Medical Center’s Biomedical Network, The New York Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Biomedical Li­ brary, as well as the work of the Washington University school of medicine library. The reg­ istration fee is $50.00 and requests for registra­ tion may be addressed to Mrs. Betty Kulifay, Washington University School of Medicine Li­ brary, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. Nov.: Institute in Boston jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Information Sys­ tems Office, the Division of Library Automa­ tion of ALA, and Harvard University library to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC magnetic tapes which became avail­ able for distribution beginning Oct. 1. The program is directed at 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 Insti­ tutes, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. Nov. 25-29: 19th meeting of FID /C 3, So­ cial Sciences, at Utrecht, Netherlands. D ec. 2-7: (AĪBDA) 2d Inter-American Meeting of Agricultural Librarians and Docu- mentalists in Bogotá, Colombia. Dec. 12-13: Institute in Atlanta, Ga., jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress Informa­ tion Systems Office, the Division of Library Automation of ALA, and Georgia Institute of Technology library 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, acquisitions librarians, heads of these depart­ ments, data processing librarians and heads of technical processes. Registration is limited to 100. Send name and address to: ISAD/L C MARC Institutes, American Library Associa­ tion, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, 111. 60611. 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” 306 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. Jan., 1969: A business meeting will be scheduled for the newly established ALA Re­ search Round Table at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Washington next January. All ALA members who are interested in library re­ search are invited to make themselves known for placement on the Round Table’s mailing list by writing to Mrs. Barbara Slanker, Li­ brary Research Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 February: Institute in Cleveland jointly spon­ sored by the Library of Congress Information Systems Office, the Division of Library Auto­ mation of ALA, and Case Western Reserve University school of library science to explain the organization and use of LC’s MARC mag­ netic tapes which became available for distribu­ tion 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. 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 at 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. 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 S t, Chicago, 111. 60611. 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. 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. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. Other ses­ sions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning th e booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publica­ tions, official publications, photoduplication of 307 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 the Executive Board of the newly incor­ porated SALALM will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednes­ 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 the time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but 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, Wash­ ington, D.C. 20006. M IS C E L L A N Y • Another telefacsimile transmission project has been inaugurated by four South Georgia libraries. The system will utilize new model Xerox Telecopiers in the project which is sup­ ported under Title III of LSCA. The four par­ ticipating libraries are the Albany Public Li­ brary, Albany State College, Albany Junior College, and South Georgia College. All are members of an eleven-institution consortium, South Georgia Academic Libraries (SGAL), organized in 1966 and devoted to the im­ provement of library services through volun­ tary cooperative efforts. • Canton Community College, Canton, Illi­ nois, has been reorganized as Spoon River Col­ lege, District 534, Canton, Illinois. • Stanley West joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Studies, University of Hawaii in December, 1967, after more than 20 years as professor and departm ent chairman of library science and as director of libraries at the University of Florida. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The H. W. Wilson Company has just pub­ lished the third title of its 1968 Reference Shelf (Volume 40, number 3), The Consum­ ing Public. Edited by Grant S. McClellan, it is designed to answer questions on the more complex consumption needs and even more complex market of today. Composed of articles reprinted from leading newspapers and mag­ azines, it includes contributions by Lawrence A. Mayer, Ralph Nader, John D. Morris, Betty Furness and New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. An extensive bibliography is included for further research. Cost is $3.50 per copy. • The new Directory of Computerized Infor­ mation in Science & Technology, edited by Leonard Cohan, Director of Libraries at Poly­ technic Institute of Brooklyn, is available from the publisher, Science Associates/Intemational, Inc., 23 East 26 Street, New York, N.Y. 10010. It describes computerized information collec­ tions and data banks in operation in all sectors of the international scientific and technical community. The purchase price of $175.00 in­ cludes periodic supplements through Decem­ ber, 1969. • Publication of the Second Edition, revised, of the Library Telecommunications Directory: Canada-United States has been announced. The Directory has been updated through July, 1968, and contains 416 listings of libraries in the United States and Canada using TWX or TELEX for interlibrary communications. A joint production of the Systems and Communi­ cations Division of the Duke University Medi­ cal Center Library and the Library Mechani­ zation Committee of the Canadian Library As­ sociation, the Directory is available at a price of $2.00, which includes updates to be issued before the publication of the Third Edition. Orders from libraries in the United States may be sent to: Mr. Warren Bird, Associate Direc­ tor, Duke University Medical Center Library, Durham, North Carolina 27706, with payment directed to the Duke University Medical Cen­ ter Library. Libraries in Canada may order from: Mr. David Skene Melvin, Associate Di­ rector, Lake Erie Regional Library System, 305 Queens Avenue, London, Ontario, with payment directed to the Library Mechaniza­ tion Committee. Automatic distribution to all libraries listed in the Directory will be on an “On Approval” basis. • Braziller’s facsimile reproduction of the long-lost Caxton translation of Ovid’s Metamor­ phoses is now available for $290 for the boxed set of two volumes. Books 1-9 of this im­ portant manuscript were lost some three cen­ turies ago but turned up in 1964 in the collec­ tion of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased at Sotheby’s by an American collector for £90,000, 308 the work was scheduled to be exported to the United States when it was rescued by the New York publisher, George Braziller, who en­ gaged to publish a facsimile edition to raise funds for its retention in England, and E u­ gene Power of Ann Arbor, who agreed to fi­ nance the project with an interest-free loan of $200,000. As a result of these efforts, the manuscript of Books 1-9 of the Caxton Ovid are now ensconced in Magdalene College, Cambridge, beside Books 10-15 of the work which had been placed there 250 years ago by the cele­ brated diarist Samuel Pepys. The 1,200 hand- numbered facsimile copies of the entire work are now heavily subscribed, bu t some copies are still available for purchase by libraries and collectors. • New York Metropolitan Reference and Re­ search Library Agency (METRO) has pub­ lished Dr. Russell Shank’s report, “Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Informa­ tion: A Program for Action in the New York Metropolitan Area.” A basic distribution of the report has been made as METRO Miscellane­ ous Publication No. 1. Additional copies are available on interlibrary loan from METRO Clearinghouse, 11 West 40 Street, New York, N.Y. 10018. • Selected Materials in Classification, an up­ dated expansion of the fifth edition of the Guide to the SLA Loan Collection, has been published by the Special Libraries Association. Compiled by Barbara Denison, it lists almost 1,500 titles in the Bibliographic Systems Cen­ ter (BSC) collection at the School of Library Science, Case Western Reserve University. The publication is available from SLA, 235 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10003, at $10.75 per copy. • Reprints of the London Times Literary Supplement are now available from the R. R. Bowker Company in annual bound volumes spanning the period 1912-43. The full 63- volume set will include all issues of the Sup­ plement from its inception in 1902 through 1964. Volumes for 1902-1906 will be published later this year. Volumes for 1907-1911 and 1944-1964 will follow in 1969. 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