ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 490 / C &R L News ★ ★ ★ News from the Hield Acquisitions • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, has acquired the collection of the Rhode Island Medical Society. The donation of approximately 50,000 volumes was voted by the Society m ember­ ship at its annual meeting in May. Founded in 1812, the Society is the eighth oldest state society in continuous operation. The collection contains nu­ merous volumes of note, including Pliny’s Historia Naturalis (1501) and about 15 other 16th-century works. The oldest English-language title is A Dis­ course of the Whole A rt of Chyrurgerie by Peter Lowe, published in Glasgow in 1612. Among many rare first editions is The Physiology of Frie­ drich Haller (1757). An unusual collection is one of non-medical publications by physicians, including works of fiction, poetry, history, travel, etc., in­ cluding Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). Originally given to the So­ ciety in 1927, the extra-professional collection in­ cludes 1,200 volumes and an endowment, which Brown will assume for the collection’s m ainte­ nance and expansion. The Society materials also include long runs of the journal publications of var­ ious state medical societies, which will be added, w ith the Society’s current medical texts, to the Brown Sciences Library. • The Center for Research Libraries’ Southeast Asia Microform (SEAM) Project, Chicago, has re­ ceived microfilm copies of manuscripts from the Yogyakarta Palace in Indonesia, the gift of Sultan Hamengkubowono IX. The 120 rolls represent two collections: one of court histories and genealogies and one of dance, dance-drama, and musical nota­ tions. The films are the result of an Australian proj­ ect to preserve the deteriorating documents. Spon­ sored in p art by the Ford Foundation w ith the stipulation that copies be made available to Ameri­ can scholars, the films were presented to a SEAM representative at ceremonies in Indonesia. SEAM has launched a new project to film manuscripts in the Sonobudoyo Museum in Yogyakarta. • City College of the City University of New York, M anhattan, has received a collection of 750 volumes and various journal issues relating to Scot­ tish life and literature. The materials are the gift of em eritus professor C olem an C. Parsons, who taught English at the College from 1937 to 1971 and is the author of more than 100 articles on Scot­ tish literature. Subjects in the collection range chronologically from the 15th-century poems of Robert Henryson to the 20th-century novels of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, with special emphasis on the Jacobites, R obert Louis Stevenson, Queen Mary of Scotland, and Sir W alter Scott. The poet John Davidson is represented in 13 first editions published between 1893 and 1910 by John Lane of London. Another first edition is Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in His­ tory (1841). Early editions of Scott include a third edition of Lord of the Isles (1815) and a second edi­ tion of Marmion (1908). The immensely popular if now fo rg o tten “ la d y ” d ra m a tis t of S cotland, Joanna Baillie, is represented in a set of her Series of Plays in W hich It Is A ttem pted to Delineate the S tronger Passions o f th e M in d (4 volum es, 1806-1812). Works of 18th-century British dram a in the collection include a 1766 operatic adaptation of Fielding’s Tom Jones by Joseph Reed, and works by the prolific George Colman. • The College of William and Mary, Williams- burg, Virginia, has acquired at auction an archive of 300 pages of manuscript m aterial relating to Commodore James Barron and the Chesapeake- Leopard affair of 1807. Barron (1768-1851) was captain of the U.S. Navy ship Chesapeake when it was overcome by a British ship, the Leopard, look­ ing for alleged British deserters. The materials pur­ chased relate to the court proceedings of 1807-1808 and include correspondence, rough minutes of hearings, witnesses’ testimony, attorneys’ interro­ gations. Some of the items are previously u n ­ known. The Barron papers are of particular value in shedding light on 19th-century court m artial proceedings and will be added to Barron’s personal papers, already at the College. William and Mary has also purchased an 1818 letter from President John Tyler to his first wife, in which he regrets th a t he will not be home for Christmas due to the pressures of public life. • Columbia University, New York City, has re- ceived a segment of the correspondence of Sir Ju­ lian Huxley (1887-1975) in commemoration of the centenary of the British scientist’s birth. The letters are the gift of author, philosopher and civil liber­ ta ria n Corliss L am ont, whose correspondence w ith Huxley began in the 1920s when Lamont, later a teacher at Columbia, was a graduate stu­ dent. Included are 20 letters from Huxley and 12 from Lam ont, covering a wide range of topics. Early letters offer advice to the young philosophy scholar, while later ones comment on Lam ont’s successful legal challenges to Senator Joseph Me- September 1987 / 491 C arthy’s investigative com m ittee in 1953 and, in 1965, of th e U.S. Postm aster G eneral’s censorship of incom ing foreign m ail. • Lehigh University, Bethlehem , Pennsylvania, has agreed to serve as the depository of the archives of the Division of Fluid D ynam ics of the Am erican Physical Society. Included are operating papers, correspondence, and financial records of the D ivi­ sion d atin g back to its founding in 1947. T he a r­ chives have been placed in the M anuscript Collec­ tion as an open collection and have been listed in O C LC . • L ehm an College of the C ity University of New York, B ronx, has re c e n tly a rra n g e d a n d m ad e available th ree collections of significance in the his­ tory of the Bronx. T he records of the F ordham M a­ nor Beform ed C hurch, established in 1696 and the oldest church in th e Bronx w ith a p erm a n en t m inis­ try, have been processed. The collection of 18 cubic feet is com prised of record books, consistory m in ­ utes, correspondence, legal docum ents, church publications and program s, speeches, com m ittee reports, photographs, m aps and blueprints, and spans th e years 1792 to 1967. Also organized are some 40 cubic feet of m aterial from the Riverdale N eighborhood House, a social service organiza­ tion, including m inutes, correspondence, photo­ graphs and publications from 1883-1978. L ehm an has also processed and described the w orking p a ­ pers of journalist Jill Jonnes, au th o r of W e ’re Still Here: T he Rise, Fall, and Resurrection o f the South Bronx (1986). Included are 10.5 cubic feet of re­ ports, new spaper clippings, correspondence, tra n ­ scripts, in terv iew notes and p h o to g rap h s d o cu ­ m enting the political, social and economic forces w hich have shaped the area. • T he L ib rary of Congress, W ashington, D .C ., has received a collection of app ro x im ately 600 draw ings, designs, letters, photographs, and other m aterials from the archives of industrial designer R aym ond Loewy. T he m aterial was purchased at the auction of the Loew y archives in F rance fol­ low ing his death in 1986. Loew y is fam ed as the de­ signer of such fam iliar items as the C oca-Cola b o t­ tle, th e classic S–l locom otive, th e G reyhound Scenicruiser bus, and the Studebaker A vanti auto­ m obile. Among the m aterials are a large w ater- color rendering of the exterior design of Air Force O ne w hich Loew y w orked out in consultation w ith President John F. Kennedy; designs of autom o­ biles, heavily an n o tated by Loew y, showing his in ­ fluence and direction; photographs of the innova­ tive 1934 H upm obile, w hich he designed; sketches for th e Russian Moskvitch car of the 1970s w hich was never built; and designs for the 1956 Cornell safety car. His w ork on th e Exxon C orporation logo is represented by a num ber of variations on th e fi­ nal product. Among m any photographs of Loewy him self is one w hich shows him as a proud 13-year- old sitting in a small racing car of his ow n design. T he L ib rary has also confirm ed th a t a d ra ft of the Bill of Rights, w ritten by Roger S herm an, is in­ cluded in the papers of President Jam es Madison. A pparently w ritten by Sherm an, a m em ber of a R E S E A R C H P U B L IC A T IO N S Guaranteed availability, when you want them. Journals of Science, Technology, and Medicine in microform. Every title filmed and delivered— from the first issue forward. Current subscriptions are delivered within three months of the end of the volume year, and availability of all backfiles is guaranteed. For complete title listings and prices, call 1-800-REACH-RP (1-800-732-2477) now. From Connecticut, Alaska and Canada, call collect (203) 397-2600. Research. Publications, Inc. IS L u n a r Drive/Drawer AB Woodbridge, CT 06525 (203) 397-2600 492 / C& RL News House of Representatives, in July of 1789, the draft indicates his influence in adding the Bill of Rights as a group of am endments to the Constitution. Madison is considered the “father” of the Bill of Rights but is known to have favored the idea that amendments be interwoven throughout the Con­ stitution. • The New York State Library, Albany, has re- ceived a collection of materials relating to fire­ fighting from Dr. Thomas Walsh of Albany. Items in the collection date from the 17th century to the present and cover topics related to the history of fires and fire-fig h tin g th ro u g h o u t the U nited States, Great Britain, and Europe. There are long runs of several American and British periodicals and National Fire Protection Board manuals, large numbers of professional fire-fighting equipment catalogs and advertising ephemera. In addition to many photographs of fire trucks and other equip­ ment, the collection contains substantial material on hydraulics and water supply, including a group of books on the construction of the Croton Reser­ voir in New York State. The core of the collection includes materials on the history of numerous fire departments throught the United States. • Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort W orth, Texas, has acquired a missions period­ ical collection of nearly 800 items from the Over­ seas Ministries Studies Center, New Haven, Con­ necticut. Included is a wide range of Third World literature in English and other languages. • Temple University Libraries' Urban Archives, P hiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have recently ac­ quired the records of the Pennsylvania National Abortion Rights League (NARAL). The records re­ flect NARAL’s activities during the late 1970s as a pro-choice organization, as well as the views of the pro-life and religious organizations in the Philadel­ phia area. Temple’s Rare Books and Manuscripts D epart­ ment has also acquired a gift from Roger Knuth of RCA/CBS of 11,000 original pulp magazines and first and limited editions of science fiction and fan­ tasy genre writings. The gift includes many com­ plete or nearly complete American and British pe­ riodicals and many books by fantasy w riter H.P. Loveeraft. • The University of California, Los Angeles, Departm ent of Special Collections has acquired a collection of the first 100 printed works of the W hittington Press. The collection includes one reg­ ular and one leather/special issue of each title, with the exception of the leather/special issues the Press printed for others. It also includes a complete run of the Press’s catalogs and an almost comprehensive run of its broadsheets, posters, ephem era, and m arbling sheets. • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, re- cently received more than 1,000 volumes of Chi­ nese books from a delegation headed by Dong- chang He, vice chairman of the State Education Commission of the People’s Republic of China. In ­ cluded are new and old reference works, modern and traditional literature, works on art history and the social sciences, and volumes from the Contem­ porary China and Chinese Art series and the Great Encyclopedia series. • The University of Rochester School of Medi- cine’s Edw ard D. Miner Library, New York, has received the papers of physiologist Edw ard Fre­ derick Adolph (1895-1986). A scientist of interna­ tional reputation, Adolph trained several genera­ tions of physicians and physiologists, and made major contributions to the understanding of the body’s regulatory functions and to the physiology of adaptation. The collection represents Adolph’s research, publishing and teaching activities at Rochester over a period of 61 years. • The University of Texas at Austin has received a gift of 1,607 volumes in Chinese, including 644 titles, from the People’s Republic of China. The books were formally presented by Consul General Yaoli Ni at a ceremony in Houston and represent a careful selection of scholarly works. Many are in special library bindings and include dictionaries, encyclopedias and directories in the fields of lan­ guage, literature, history, culture, philosophy, re­ ligion, economics, business and the arts. Other ti­ tles cover areas of science and technology. One 10–volum e set, Tsou hsiang shih chieh (March Toward the World), contains the memoirs of Chi­ nese diplomats, officials and scholars who visited foreign countries in the late 19th century. Of inter­ est to researchers are volumes of the 1982 Popula­ tion Census of China as well as Great Economic E v e n ts in the P e o p le ’s R e p u b lic o f C hina (1949-1980) and reprints of periodical titles from the time of the early Republic. Also included are deluxe editions of four of the most popular Chinese novels, The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Jour­ ney to the West, The W ater Margin, and The Story of Three Kingdoms. • The University of Tulsa’s Special Collections D epartm ent, Oklahoma, has received a collection of correspondence betw een poet, novelist and critic Robert Graves (1895-1986) and Scottish folk singer Isla Cam eron w ritten between 1961 and 1971. The collection includes 85 letters signed by Graves and 77 signed by Cameron, and was p u r­ chased from a London dealer. At the height of his career during the period of the correspondence, Graves had settled permanently on the island of Majorca, from which he travelled frequently to lecture or to receive public honors. The letters demonstrate that Graves and Cameron were close friends who gave one another support and encour­ agement. Graves discusses the two “Muses” who inspired much of his love poetry and speaks of his famous work The W hite Goddess and of his need to be in love in order to write true poetry. Graves, who never learned to type, w rote the letters in longhand. S ep tem b er 1987 / 493 Tulsa’s Special Collections D ep artm en t has also issued a comprehensive guide to its collection of the m aterials of English novelist Paul Scott. Scott was visiting professor at Tulsa in 1976 and 1977 and is most noted as the creator of The Raj Quartet, the basis for the recent PBS series “The Jewel in the C ro w n .” Scott died in 1979. T he collection in ­ cludes m aterials relating to Scott’s novels, televi­ sion and stage plays, lectures and addresses, as well as reviews, reader’s reports, press cuttings and ra ­ dio reviews, m agazine and new spaper a p p e a r­ ances and a large num ber of d ra ft book reviews and reader’s reports. It chronicles Scott’s life from 1960 until his death and contains virtually all his corre­ spondence during the period, some 5,700 letters w ritten to him and 6,000 by him . Grants • B row n U niversity’s John C a rte r B row n Li- b r a r y , P ro v id e n c e , R h o d e I s la n d , h as b e e n aw arded $250,000 by alum nus F inn M. W . Casper- son, chief executive officer of Beneficial C orpora­ tion. The funds will be used for the creation of a Map Room in the library’s new wing. • Carnegie-M ellon University’s H u n t Botanical L ibrary, H u n t Institute for Botanical D ocum enta­ tio n , P itts b u rg h , P en n sy lv an ia, has received a grant of $12,268 from the State L ibrary of Pennsyl­ vania w ith funds provided by th e federal L ibrary Services and C onstruction Act, Title III. The grant will allow portions of the lib rary ’s card catalog to be converted into m achine-readable form and to m ake its resources available on O C L C . The Pitts­ burgh Regional L ibrary C enter will undertake the conversion of approxim ately one-fourth of the col­ lection, including its floristic and systematic litera­ ture. Carnegie-M ellon, w ith the C arnegie L ibrary of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh, has also received an LSCA Title III planning grant of $58,673 to form a library consortium . The grant is effective in October. The establishm ent of a coop­ erative preservation and storage facility together w ith the Pennsylvania State University libraries and other research libraries is am ong the goals of consortium. Internships and cooperative staff de­ velopm ent program s will also be developed. • The C enter for Research Libraries, Chicago, has received a three-year grant of $250,000 from the Pew M em orial Trust for the conversion of a p o rtio n of its ty p e w ritte n ca ta lo g records into m achine-readable form . Approxim ately 60,000 of the C enter’s rem aining 200,000 catalog cards will be converted as p a rt of the project, developed in conjunction w ith O C L C , w hich is contributing 25 percent of the project costs in services. The records will also be m ade available on RLIN. • C olum bia University’s School of L ibrary Ser- vice, New York City, has been aw arded $450,000 by the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities for its postgraduate Conservation Programs. The grant will allow the School to adm it 36 new stu­ dents over the next three years for training as pres­ ervation adm inistrators, and 18 students for tra in ­ ing as conservators. Scores of records of scores and books A cooperative project undertaken by the m u ­ sic libraries of the E astm an School of Music, In- diana University, and the University of Califor- n ia a t B erkeley, u n d e r th e auspices of th e Associated Music Libraries G roup and funded by a Title IL C grant from the U.S. D epartm ent of E ducation, has resulted in the retrospective conversion of 29,454 bibliographic records for music scores and books. Of these records, 7,370 J input at E astm an and In d ian a were new to the O C LC database, and 7,774 of those input at B erkeley w ere new to th e R LIN d a ta b a se . Tapes from the respective institutions are in the process of being cross-loaded into RLIN and O C LC for the widest possible use by m em ber institutions. Adherence to standards as described in The N ational Plan for Retrospective Conversion in ; Music (M LA N ew sletter, n o .60, M arch April 1985) was strict. AACR2 authority w ork was ; done for all access points, and local authority ' control was m aintained. E astm an and Indiana used the “enhance” ca­ pability to im prove significantly a total of 7,354 records in O C L C . This included the addition of access points such as th e u n iq u e music pub- lisher’s num bers, subject headings, and the up- grading of nam e and uniform title headings to AACR2 specifications. In most instances pre- AACR2 descriptions were left unm odified, bu t all codes for fixed fields and indicators were supplied or corrected during enhancem ent. T he highest co n cen tratio n of records con- verted are in the areas of piano music, piano and one other instrum ent, duets, and cham ber music. Berkeley also converted a significant num ber of records for band music, vocal music, and liturgical music, and w ere able to convert most of their pre-1900 im prints. In d ian a con- verted 4,199 titles in music teaching and litera- tu rc (MT classification). The three libraries each concentrated on dif­ ferent areas and strengths of their collections in order to m inim ize overlap and to facilitate fu­ tu re retrospective conversion efforts. The proj­ ect was coordinated through m onthly reports, shared sample records to aid in quality control, jo in t m eetings, a n d rep o rts to th e fu n d in g agency. This is the largest cooperative effort yet undertaken for the retrospective conversion of music m aterials. 494 / C & R L N ews • G ettysburg College's M usselm an L ib rary , G ettysburg, Pennsylvania, has been aw arded a $14,676 grant by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The grant will fund the col­ lege’s participation in the Pennsylvania College and University Archival and M anuscript Reposi­ tory Regrant Program. As p art of the program , ar­ chivists will conduct a records inventory of the ad­ ministrative offices, academic departm ents, and faculty governance committees; create records re­ tention schedules based upon the records inven­ tory; plan an orderly transfer of historically im por­ ta n t records to the college archives; and begin arrangem ent of the most significant records. The regrant program is a cooperative effort of the Na­ tional Historical Publications and Records Com­ mission and the State Historical Records Advisory Roard. • The H um an Relations Area Files, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut, has received a $40,000 NEH g ra n t and $50,000 from th e N ational Science Foundation for the project “A Supplement to the Ethnographic Bibliography of North Am erica.” Work on the two-volume supplement to the 1975 edition began July 1, and is expected to take two years. The Ethnographic Bibliography is the stan­ dard bibliographic reference work on Eskimos and North American Indians. • Kent State University’s School of Architecture and Environm ental Design, Ohio, has received a six-year, $600,000 grant from the Ohio Roard of Regents under its Academic Challenge program. More than $215,000 has been designated for the new architectural branch library, dedicated in April, including funds for renovation, furnishings, and a professional librarian’s salary. An alumni gift Bentley Library fellowships T he R entley H isto rical L ib ra ry has a n ­ nounced the av ailability of fellowships for Summer 1988 through its Research Fellowship Program for the Study of M odern Archives. W ith funds received from the Andrew W. Mel­ lon Foundation and the National Endowm ent for the Humanities, the library offers fellow­ ships for research on problems associated with the collection, appraisal, adm inistration, pres­ ervation, and use of modern records and m anu­ script collections. Professional archivists, records m anagers, historians, and other scholars at any stage of their professional career are eligible for fellow­ ships. For application forms and further infor­ mation, w rite to Francis X. Rlouin Jr. or W il­ liam K. W allach, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113; (313) 764-3482. Appli­ cations for the Summer 1988 program must be postmarked by December 11, 1987. supplied ca rp et for the lib ra ry and ad d itio n al money has been pledged by alumni for the p u r­ chase of materials. • S tanford U niversity, C alifo rn ia, has been aw arded an LSCA Title III grant of $50,829 to serve as fiscal agent for the planning of a California statewide conference on library and information services for ethnic California. It is projected th at Blacks, Hispanics, Asian-Pacific and Native Amer­ icans will constitute the predom inant population of the state by the tu rn of the century. The goal of the project is to explore the implications of this eth­ nic shift and to help libraries respond to it. A plan­ ning committee of representatives from academic and public libraries around the state has been ap­ pointed by the State L ibrarian and has subm itted a $212,000 conference proposal. Stanford has also received an aw ard of $146,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to con­ tinue the Mellon Internship in Preservation Ad­ m in istra tio n for th ree years. The first M ellon aw ard in 1984 allowed three postgraduate interns to develop planning and m anagerial skills and new technical knowledge. The present grant will fund three additional interns at the rate of one per year. • The State University College at Buffalo, New York, together w ith Canisius College and the State U niversity of N ew York at B uffalo, has been aw arded a $3,000 grant by the Japan Foundation for the acquisition of books on Japanese culture, history, and social life. T he collection w ill be housed in the State University College library. • The University of C alifornia, Los Angeles, D e p a rtm e n t of Special C ollections, has been aw arded a $22,000 grant by the Times M irror Foundation to support the processing and preser­ vation of the Los Angeles Times photographic ar­ chive. The archive contains more than two million negatives covering the period 1893 through 1981. The Times keeps its previous six years of negatives in its current research archive and transfers non- current negatives to UCLA annually. Funds for the current project will be used to re-box the collection and to convert and update an index microfilmed from old index cards to an online database which will provide broader access to the collection. • The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has re- ceived a $918,163 endowm ent from the estate of E dm und Field, a 1916 graduate. Field was the grandson of E dm und Burke Fairfield, the Univer­ sity’s second chancellor, who served from 1876 to 1882. Income from the endowm ent will be used to enhance the collections. • The University of South C arolina’s College of Library and Inform ation Science, Columbia, has received $8,000 to fund the third and final year of a project emphasizing the state’s library heritage. A project entitled “South C arolina’s Library Heri­ tage,” including articles, oral history interviews and an exhibit, is now available for tours. Plans are underw ay for a conference on South Carolina li­ Septem ber 1987 / 495 brary history and the docum entation of the experi­ ences of black librarians in the state. F unding for the project has come from the Com m ittee for the Humanities, the South C arolina State Library, and the South C arolina L ibrary Association. South C arolina’s L ibrary Processing C enter has received an LSCA Title III grant of $15,000 from the South C arolina State L ibrary, not $1,500 as re­ ported in the April 1987 C & RL News. • The University of W aterloo, O ntario, has re- ceived a grant of $1,750 from the Social Sciences and Hum anities Research Council of C anada to purchase a rare architectural dictionary for the Rosa B reithaupt Clark Collection. The grant was m ade under the “Fleeting O pportunities” provi­ sion of the Council’s “Support to Specialized Col­ lections in U niversity L ib raries P ro g ra m ,” d e ­ signed to help university libraries take advantage of unforeseen opportunities to buy highly desirable items. Such grants m ust be m atch ed by lib rary funds. Acquired was the A rchitectural Publication Society’s Dictionary o f Architecture, published in London beween 1848 and 1892, a fundam ental ref­ erence for the study of the history of architecture that has never been reprinted. Com plete sets of the eight folios are now very scarce. W aterloo has also recently been aw arded a grant of $5,000 from the W aterloo Regional Heritage Foundation to conserve the Kitchener-W aterloo Record collection of 875,000 photographic nega­ tives. • The V erm ont State Archives, M ontpelier, and the M anuscripts and Special Collections Unit of the New York State L ibrary have received an NEH preservation g ran t of $60,000 to m icrofilm the Stevens Papers. The Papers encompass the years 1700-1860 and focus on the territorial disputes th at gave birth to Verm ont as a republic in 1777 and as a state in 1791. Assembled by H enry Stevens Jr. (1791-1867), an im portant collector of Vermon- tian a and founder of the V erm ont Historical Soci­ ety (1838), they were sold by Stevens’ heirs to the New York State L ibrary in 1875. Partially burned in the 1911 Capitol fire, their fragile condition has since restricted their use. Under the auspices of the V erm ont Secretary of State’s Office, the Papers will be transferred to the V erm ont State Archives for filming. Both states will receive copies of the films. News notes • The C enter for Research Libraries, Chicago, has become a full m em ber of the L ibrary of C on­ gress CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) p ro ­ gram. As a full m em ber, the C enter will perform nam e authority work for its headings and authenti­ cate its own records. CRL has been an active con­ tributor to the LC Nam e A uthority File since O cto­ ber 1986 and has “enhance” capabilities on O C LC for its m onographic cataloging. It has been esti­ 496 / C & R L N ew s m ated th at CRL will catalog 1,800-2,000 serials per year. Given the uncommon titles owned by the Center, its participation in CONSER will make an im portant contribution to the program ’s goal of building a comprehensive serials database th at en­ compasses all languages, subjects, and formats. • The University of Florida’s Baldwin Library, Gainesville, has completed its im print catalog for books in English before 1900 prim arily for chil­ dren, some 40,000 of which are held by the library. Although an index to the collection was published by G.K. Hall in 1981, the Baldwin Library has m aintained chronological, im print, and added en­ try files for all books added since. The files have proven useful in checking catalogs and bibliogra­ phies by im print and in studying specific publish­ ing houses, e.g., D arton, T abart, Partridge, and Mahlon Day. Anyone compiling bibliographies of publishers before 1900 may wish to query Baldwin even though the focus is on popular materials and not prim arily children’s books. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles James H. Billington, director of the W oodrow Wilson In tern atio n al C enter for Scholars since 1973, was confirmed by Congress on July 24 as the 13th Librarian of Congress. He takes over from Daniel Boorstin and will assume his duties in late September. A native of Pennsylvania, Billington was valedictorian of the undergraduate class at Princeton in 1950 and was designated a Rhodes Scholar, receiving his doctorate from Balliol Col­ lege, Oxford, in 1953. Following arm y service he joined the History faculty at H arvard University and moved to Princeton in 1962. In 1964 he was m ade a full professor. Billington is the author of numerous books and was twice nom inated for the National Book Award. He has served on several ed­ itorial and advisory boards and has been a Guggen­ heim fellow, among many other distinctions. He has also participated as host, com m entator, or con­ sultant on numerous educational and network tele­ vision programs and has accompanied several con­ gressional delegations to the U.S.S.R. L orena F ilosa Boylan, assistant librarian for technical publications at Haverford College, has been nam ed director of the library at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania. She is the first wom an to hold the post. A graduate of LaSalle University, Boylan re ­ ceived her MLS from Drexel University and began her professional career in 1977 as assistant librarian at Bryn M awr College. She became catalog librar­ ian at Swarthm ore College in 1981 and joined the staff at Haverford in 1984. D avid F. Bishop, director of libraries at the Uni­ versity of Georgia since 1979, has been named uni­ v ersity lib ra ria n a t th e U niversity of Illinois, U r b a n a - C h a m p a ig n . H e succeeds M ichael G orm an, acting director since the death of Hugh C . A tk in so n . He as­ sumed control of the na­ tion’s largest public uni­ versity library on August 21. A native of New York C ity, Bishop earned a bachelor’s degree in m u­ sic an d d id g ra d u a te work in music literature David F. Bishopa t th e U n iv e rsity of R o c h e s te r’s E a s tm a n School of Music. He earned his MLS from the Catholic University of America and subsequently studied m athem atics and com puter science at the University of M aryland, holding several library po­ sitions there from 1963 to 1974. Thereafter he was head cataloger and later assistant director of tech­ nical services at the University of Chicago. Bishop serves on the board of directors of both the Association of Research Libraries and the Cen­ ter for Research Libraries, and is active in many professional organizations, including ALA. Charles D. C hurchwell, until recently dean of library service at Washington University in St. Louis, has joined the faculty of the Library Science P rogram at W ayne State U niversity, D etro it,