ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 11 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A small but distinctive Dard Hunter col­ lection has been acquired by the Department of Special Collections, University of Cali­ fornia, Santa Barbara, with the assistance of the Friends of the UCSB library. The twelve books, ten of them published by Mr. Hunter himself and printed upon paper made by the author, comprise some of the most im­ portant works of this outstanding expert on the history and study of paper. Most of these books are of limited issue and include numer­ ous examples of fine paper collected in various parts of the world. • Author-anthropologist Oscar Lewis has given the original manuscript and ninety-one recording tapes of interviews that he conduct­ ed in preparation of his best-selling book, “The Children of Sanchez,” to the University of Illinois library at Urbana. • An outstanding collection of one hundred five volumes by and about Blaise Pascal, 17th century French philosopher and physicist, has been presented to Boston University by Dean S. Edmonds, Jr., assistant professor of physics at Boston University’s College of Liberal Arts. • Clippings of the nearly fifteen million stories which appeared in The New York Herald Tribune during its forty-second-year history have been given to the New York University libraries by John Hay Whitney, the paper’s last publisher. The clippings form the bulk of the Herald Tribune’s morgue, which also includes about two hundred thou­ sand photographs, six-thousand books and mis­ cellaneous correspondence. • The University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees library has received a copy of a first edition of The Workes of Benjamin Jonson as a gift from Mrs. and Mrs. Saul Z. Cohen of New York City. Published in London in 1616, the volume is the first collected edition of Jonson’s works, and next to the Shakespeare First Folio of 1623, it is considered one of the greatest monuments of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. The hook will be added to the library’s treasure room. • The H ofstra University library has bought the personal collection of Professor Shepard Clough of Columbia University con­ sisting of more than five thousand volumes in the fields of European political and economic history. The collection is especially strong in French and Italian history and in European economic statistics. • The Edwin B. Knowles collection of materials relating to Cervantes and Thomas Shelton has been acquired by the Paul Klap­ per library of Queens College, City University of New York. A collection of family papers and photo­ graphs relating to James A. Herne—American actor, dramatist, and author has been acquired by the Paul Klapper library of Queens Col­ lege, City University of New York. • The Oliver St. John Gogarty collection was purchased with funds provided by La- Fayette Butler, through the good offices of Professor James Carens for Bucknell Univer­ sity library. This small but choice collection includes some forty items. • The library of W isconsin State Univer­ sity, La Crosse, has acquired the complete publications of the Arkham House Press. Au­ gust Derleth, Wisconsin author, native of Sauk City, is director of the Press. The collection is rich, not only in autographed titles by Derleth, b ut also in the complete fiction and poetic works of H. P. Lovecraft, currently the subject of a growing audience of admirers. A W A R D S , G IF T S , G R A N T S • University of Illinois chapter of Alpha Chi Rho social fraternity has given $100 to the U. of I. library for the purchase of a nine- volume set of collected works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by R. P. Basler. The funds were provided by the fraternity’s national office because the U. of I. chapter’s grade- point average was above the all-men’s average at Illinois for 1966-67. • The Ford Foundation has announced a $5 million grant to help the nation’s libraries keep pace with the “information explosion.” The grant was made to the Council on Li­ brary Resources, which will expand its pro­ gram of research, development, and demon­ stration of new techniques and methods in library operations and service. • A grant, in the amount of $30,000, to ALA’s Library Technology Program for preparation of additional publications in a series on the conservation of library materials has been made by the Council on Library Resources. Plans call for publication of ma­ terial dealing with binding construction, re­ pairing and tooling leather bindings, deacidi- fying paper, supporting weak and disinte­ grated paper, repairing velum and parchment, and treating materials damaged by fire or water. B U I L D I N G S • The University of Pittsburgh officially acquired title to its new Hillman library on December 11. The library is scheduled to open officially on January 8. The five-story structure is made of Indiana limestone and was built at a cost of $12 million. The building contains 222,200 square feet and has a working ca­ pacity of approximately one million two hun­ dred thousand volumes. It will be manned by a staff of 132, including forty-three profes­ sional librarians. • An auxiliary library, with an initial ca­ pacity of some five hundred thousand books on fourteen miles of shelf space, is under con­ struction on Princeton University’s James Forrestal Campus. When completed next March, the $515,000 single-story, reinforced concrete structure will begin relieving the jammed shelves of the University’s main Harvey S. Firestone memorial library, and fifteen sup­ plementary departmental libraries. A “culling” of the library’s printed material has been in progress for more than a year to select volumes which will be moved to the 16,000 square foot structure some two miles from the Fire­ stone library. It is expected that twenty-five thousand volumes will be moved initially. • The new H ofstra University library has been awarded the 1967 Long Island Asso­ ciation Architectural Award for the best build­ ing completed on Long Island in the preced­ ing year. It has also been awarded the New York State Association of Architects’ Excel­ lence in Design Award. These follow the Spring, 1966, Concrete Award for the best concrete structure in the New York metropoli­ tan area. • On October 12 the new Boyd Lee Spahr library on the D ickinson College campus opened for the first day of service, after a thousand students, faculty, wives, and towns­ people had participated in a day-long Book Walk, transferring one hundred thousand vol­ umes from the old building to the new library. The $2M million library has a seating capacity of eight hundred students and shelf space for over three hundred thousand volumes. • The Thomas B. and Jeannette L. McCabe library at Swarthmore College was dedicated on December 8 and 9. The ceremonies also includ­ ed a special program to dedicate the Friends Historical library, which is a part of the main library structure. • Ground will be broken on April 4 for a $2.8 million library-information center at Penn­ sylvania Military Colleges. • On October 19 ground was broken for a new $1.5 million library building at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. The 43,000 square foot building is designed to pro­ vide seats for four hundred readers and shelf space for one hundred fifty thousand volumes. T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C E N E • Plans for three month-long educational seminars to be held in South America during 1968 have been announced by Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, coordinator of overseas programs for the division of continuing education of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The tours include a three-country seminar for “ma­ ture American” educators, professional and business people in February, with a second similar seminar in July, and a summer sem­ inar on Ecuador and its Culture to be conduct­ ed during June and July. The Ecuador sem­ inar is designed primarily for teachers. The February seminar is an educational tour through Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, and will be conducted February 9 to March 8. Both will carry four hours of graduate or under­ graduate credit from Portland State College. M E E T I N G S F eb. 8-10: Third Library History Seminar at Florida State University, Tallahassee. It is jointly sponsored by Florida State University’s library school, history department and Strozier library and by the Journal of Library History and the American Library History Round Table. The registration fee for the seminar is $12, including a banquet. Room and other meals are extra. For reservations for the seminar, applications for student scholarships and fur­ ther information write Third Library History Seminar, Library School, Florida State Uni­ versity, Tallahassee, Florida 32306. F eb. 15-16: Institute on Cooperative Library Systems: A New Look, at the School of Library Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Applications for admission should be mailed to Dean Martha Boaz before Feb. 1 Mar. 29-30: Third Annual Conference on Junior College Libraries Multi-Media Centers, sponsored by the Illinois Library Association, Illinois Association of Junior College Presi­ dents, and Northern Illinois University, at University Center, NIU, DeKalb, 111. May: Paris—International Council of Scien­ tific Management, 6th Regional Conference of CECIOS. June: Stockholm—International Congress on Medical Records. Jun e: Paris—12th General Assembly of ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions). July 29-Aug. 2: Cologne—8th General Con­ ference of the International Council of Mu­ seums. 12 Aug. 5-10: Edinburgh—4th Congress of the International Federation for Information Proc­ essing (IF IP ). Aug. 11-23: Second Annual University of Maryland Library Administrators Development Program. Senior administrative personnel of large public, research, academic libraries and school library systems will study organization and administration under the direction of man­ agement consultants, professors of business and public administration and library scholars. The program will be held at the University of Mary­ land’s Donaldson Brown Center, Port Deposit (M d.), and will be directed by John Rizzo of the school of government and business admin­ istration, George Washington University. Aug. 18-25: Frankfurt/M ain—34th Confer­ ence of IFLA. Sept. 9-18: Moscow—34th FID Conference and International Congress on Scientific In­ formation. Se pt. 23-26: Canterbury—42nd Annual Con­ ference of Aslib. Oct. 7-16: Ottawa and Washington, D.C.— 4th Congress of the International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documenta­ tion, and 6th General Assembly of CIB (Seer.: Weena 700, Rotterdam). Oct. 20-24: American Society for Informa­ tion Science, formerly American Documenta­ tion Institute, 31st annual meeting in Colum­ bus, Ohio. Papers are invited on all facets of methods and mechanisms to improve the op­ erations of information systems. The technical sessions chairman, David M. Leston, Jr., Bat- telle Memorial Institute, should be notified of intent to submit papers, by March 1. M I S C E L L A N Y • Stanford University received its three millionth book for its library system on Nov. 7. The book, a copy of the first edition of John Locke’s “An Essay Concerning Humane Un­ derstanding,” published in London in 1690, was the gift of W arren R. Howell, proprietor of a San Francisco antiquarian book shop, and was formally received in the Bender Room of the main library by Stanford President Wal­ lace Sterling, Rutherford D. Rogers, director of the Stanford libraries, and a group of senior staff members. The book will be placed in the division of special collections. • The Library of Congress is interested in registering all organizations, institutions, groups, or individuals with special knowledge or infor­ mational competence in any aspect of toxi­ cology. This project is being undertaken by the Library’s National Referral Center for Science and Technology with support from the Toxi­ cology Information Program of the National Li­ brary of Medicine. The purpose of this announcement is to en­ courage the registration of all information re­ sources on toxicology with the National Referral Center for Science and Technology. The data gathered will become a part of the Center’s comprehensive register of information resources. The Center uses its current collection of over 8,700 information resources to provide an on­ going referral service, directing those who need information on a particular subject to those or­ ganizations or individuals with specialized knowledge on that subject. The Center also is­ sues directories covering both broad and spe­ cific subject fields and analyzes the nation’s scientific information network. Those who wish to register their specialized capabilities in toxicology should call or write the National Referral Center for Science and Tech­ nology, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 (telephone: area code 202, 967-8341). • Dickinson College has hailed Charles Coleman Sellers, its librarian, as “the scholar par excellence” of the faculty and one whose work is “honored nationwide.” This accolade is set forth in an illuminated scroll presented to Dr. Sellers at the dedication of Dickinson’s new Boyd Lee Spahr library on Nov. 4. The text of the scroll follows: “ Charles C olem an Sellers— O n this auspicious occa ­ sion o f the dedication o f the Boyd L e e Spahr Library, it is also appropriate that w e turn to you as librarian, who so long has nurtured the hope w hich today is a reality. T h a t d a y in 194 9 w hen you arrived on our campus to be curator o f Dickinsoniana proved a h appy one for this college. In the years which h ave follow ed you h ave becom e universally recognized b y your col­ leagues as friend and adviser. “ Y our distinguished writings and your knowledge o f X V III century art and life have made you scholar par excellence o f this fa cu lty, one whose work is hon­ ored nationwide. A one-time Research Associate of the Am erican Philosophical Society and organizing librarian o f the B elknap Collection at W interthur while still serving D ickinson attest alike your energy and versatility. N ow , as you com m ence a definitive history o f Dickinson C o llege, w e salute you not only as librar­ ian b u t as one whose gentle spirit illum ines friend­ ship, whose integrity o f intellect in unm atched and one who is ever generous in givin g counsel to others.” • College and university librarians in South Dakota have recently put into effect an aca­ demic libraries interlibrary loan code involving updated features not presently available in the General Interlibrary Loan Code of 1952. The South Dakota Code has been labeled a “mutual use” agreement which allows in-person mutual use of academic library facilities by any student of faculty member in the state. One provision is an allowance for up to five pages of photo­ copy to be sent without charge at any one time; six or more pages to be billed at ten cents per page for the entire number sent. Bi­ lateral agreements between libraries with ap- 13 proximątely equal exchange may be made to eliminate charges altogether. Requests for copies of this code should be sent to James L. Dertien, Norman B. Mears Library, Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57101. • The first meeting of the newly organized Upper Mississippi Academic Library Confer­ ence met at W isconsin State University, La Crosse, on October 27, 1967. The association, made up of smaller universities and colleges, in­ cluded representatives from Illinois, Iowa, Min­ nesota, and Wisconsin. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The first revisions to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules have been approved by the A.L.A. Descriptive Cataloging Committee and the Library of Congress. The changes and ad­ ditions have been made to clarify intent or to define application. These revisions have been issued in Cataloging Service, Bulletin 81, pub­ lished by and available from the Library of Con­ gress, Processing Department, Washington, D.C. 20540. • The University of Colorado for the first time has collected in one central catalog infor­ mation about the CU libraries collection of thirty thousand magazines, scholarly journals, proceedings and transactions of societies, year­ books, newspapers and abstracts. The “Catalog of Serials” was released this month by the li­ braries; it had been in production for more than a year, made possible by use of a computer. The initial catalog will be supplemented by new titles every three months and an annual edition each year. The publication is available for $10 a copy from the Library Administration Office, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80302. • Continuing Education for Librarians, a listing of workshops, seminars, institutes and short courses in librarianship and related fields for the year 1968, has just been published by ALA. The list is intended for librarians, teach­ ers, information scientists, and personnel officers interested in identifying opportunities for con­ tinuing professional education in librarianship. Continuing Education for Librarians is available without charge by writing to Continuing Edu­ cation for Librarians, American Library Associa­ tion, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. • The Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society will be pub­ lished in May 1968. It is being compiled by Mrs. Avril J. M. Pedley, of Newnham College, Cambridge, and comprises seventeen hundred collections, with a cut-off date of November 1967. Each collection is described, and a co­ pious index provided. Correspondence should be 1 sent to Mr. P. W. Filby, Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. • Libraries and Automation is a 3,079-item bibliography (with index) based on the course bibliographies prepared by faculty members in the majority of the library schools accredited by the American Library Association. Most items published before 1958 were omitted. The index to the bibliography is a useful guide to the major works in the rapidly expanding area of automation in libraries. Compiled by Jack Speer, and published by the Teachers College Press, Kansas State Teachers College of Em­ poria, the bibliography sells for $4. per copy. • “Non-Book Materials as Library Re­ sources,” by Budd L. Gambee, is published by the Student Stores, University of North Caro­ lina, Chapel Hill, and sells for $1.85 plus 3 per cent tax. Comprising class materials for a school of library science course the book in­ cludes outlines, bibliographies, lists of sources, cataloging forms, and assignments to accompany the course lectures, discussions, and special pro­ grams. • Performing Arts Libraries and Museums of the World by André Veinstein, George Freedley, Rosamond Gilder and Paul Myers is the second edition of this bi-lingual reference work (for­ merly Performing Arts Collections). Almost 75 per cent of the original material has been re­ vised and brought up to date, and some seventy new collections are described, bringing the total to 310 in thirty countries—museums and even private collections all over the world which have special materials about the history and literature of the theatre, about dance and bal­ let, and circus arts, the cinema, radio and tele­ vision, and all the arts connected with public performance. In each case information is given in both French and English. The analytical in­ dex contains twenty-five hundred entries. • University of Illinois graduate school of library science at Urbana has published “pro­ ceedings of the Conference on Archival Admin­ istration for Small Universities, Colleges and Junior Colleges” as Number 88 in its Occasional Papers series. Papers presented at the confer­ ence covered such topics as: objectives, organi­ zation and location of an archival program; classification, provenance and control; process­ ing and description; records management; pres­ ervation, space and equipment; and use, refer­ ence service and promotion. The conference was held Sept. 8-9, 1966, at the U. of I. • The staff of E ast Stroudsburg State Col­ lege (Pa.) library has completed an index to the personal names in the 14th edition of DDC. Copies are available for photocopying, on inter- library loan, from Leslie R. Morris, Kemp Li­ brary, East Stroudsburg State College. ■ ■ 4 15