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News From the Field
A C Q U I S I T I O N S

•  The library of the late Willy Ley, one of
the best known authors of books on rockets and
space travel, has been purchased by th e li­
brary of th e U niversity of Alabama in H unts­
ville. Consisting of about 4,500 volumes, it
forms one of the largest collections of books
and journals on th e history and development
of rocketry and space travel in existence. ( Ley’s
correspondence, clipping files, and manuscripts
w ere simultaneously acquired by th e Nation­
al Air and Space Museum of th e Smithsonian
In stitu tio n .)

A scientist-author, Ley was instrum ental in
the formation of experimental rocket groups in
Germany during the 1920s and was a founding
mem ber of th e Germ an Rocket Society (V fR ).
His interest in rocketry helped lead to the de­
velopment of the V-2. H e became an early
member of both the American Rocket Society
and the British Interplanetary Society, with
w hich he m aintained close contact prior to his 
departure from Germany in the mid-1930s.

Ley was born in Germany a t th e  tu rn  of
the century, came to the U.S. in 1935, and ob­
tained his U.S. citizenship in 1944. A free-lance 
w riter off and on during his lifetime, h e also 
worked as a science editor of a N ew  York daily, 
a research engineer for the W ashington Insti­
tu te of Technology, a part-tim e professor of
science a t Fairleigh Dickinson University, a con­
sultant to th e Office of Technical Services of 
the U.S. D epartm ent of Commerce, and pu b ­
lic lecturer an d  consultant on astronautics and 
space research to industry and film makers. At 
the tim e of his d eath in June 1969, Ley and his 
wife w ere residing in New York City.

•  A recent acquisition of 312 volumes pu b ­
lished by Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, 
Maine, during the period 1891 to 1923 has been 
donated to th e Arizona State U niversity li­
brary by his son, Thomas Bird Mosher, Jr. In ­
cluded are Stevenson’s W ill o’ the Mill, one of 
twenty-five copies on Japanese vellum; Field’s 
L ittle W illie, of w hich Benton H atch states in 
his bibliography of Mosher “no copy located,” 
as well as W hitm an’s Memories o f President 
Lincoln, one of ten p u re Roman vellum copies. 
Also included are a num ber of post-1923 Mosh­
er imprints, catalogs, seals, photographs, paper 
samples, and miscellaneous new spaper clippings 
and business papers. This contribution enhances 
greatly the Mosher Collection at Arizona State 
University.

•  The F lorida State University library 
has recently received a complete set of books 
published by the Kelmscott Press in its brief

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 

 

existence from 1891 to 1898. Mr. H ow ard A. 
Storrs, editor-publisher of th e D eFuniak H er­
ald-Breeze, D eFuniak Springs, Florida, is the 
donor of this generous gift. T he set includes 
fifty-two titles in sixty-four volumes. Most of the 
books are bound in vellum, w ith only fourteen 
being in boards w ith linen spine. Since some 
of the titles w ere published in editions of only 
150 copies, there can be only a small number 
of complete sets.

•  A valuable collection of books, rare off­
prints, microfilms, and miscellaneous items on 
Portuguese and Brazilian history has been given 
to the University of Mia m i by an outstanding 
L atin Americanist on th e faculty of Inter-Am er­
ican Studies in the UM C enter for Advanced 
International Studies, it has been announced by 
Dr. Mose L. Harvey, director of the center. 
Dr. Bailey W. Diffie’s collection of more than 
2,000 books includes b oth rare items and large 
sets of resource materials.

•  The library of W ashburn U niversity of 
Topeka has been presented w ith th e private 
library of th e late Dr. Ray M. Lawless of Kan­
sas City, Missouri. Dr. Lawless was th e editor 
of Folk Singers and Folk Songs in America pu b ­
ished in 1960. His private collection contains 
early editions of the works of Joseph Conrad 
and Lafcadio H earn, as well as a num ber of 
books dealing w ith folk songs and folklore.

•  T. S. Eliot’s revised typescript of “Occa­
sional Verses,” a section new  to his Collected 
Poems 1909-1962, is part of an addition to the 
W ashington University libraries collections 
of considerable textual interest. W ith it are 
Eliot’s typescript notes on the “Occasional 
Verses,” and a 1954 impression of the F aber 
edition of Collected Poems 1909-1935, with 
E liot’s extensive revisions for the new  edition. 
Two groups of letters, one from San Francisco 
poet Robert D uncan, th e other from Cid Cor­
man, American poet now living in Japan, re­
flect th e interest of these writers in publishing 
and printing. Notes and literary manuscripts of 
Ellic Howe, contemporary English historian of 
printing, have recently been added to the 
growing Isador M endle Collection on th e His­
tory of Printing.

•  On the occasion of its forty-fifth anniver­
sary th e Columbia College Class of 1925 has 
presented an im portant archive of John Jay let­
ters and manuscripts to the Columbia Col­
lege libraries, w hich increases immeasurably 
th e research value and eminence of th e libraries’ 
Jay Collection. Included in this most significant 
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forty-five letters w ritten by Jay to John Adams, 
George W ashington, E d m u n d  Burke, Gouver­
n eur Morris, John Trum bull, and numerous oth ­
er historical figures; thirty-tw o letters to Jay 
from th e French Ministers, L ord Grenville, and 
others, relating to foreign affairs; more th an  one 
h u ndred Jay Fam ily letters, most of w hich were 
w ritten to Jay and concern personal m atters; a 
receipt book kept by Jay an d  his father, cover­
ing the years 1789–1802; draft of a  bill to 
Congress, 1779, in Jay’s hand, concerning the 
disputed borders betw een N ew  York and Ver­
mont; a report to the Com m ittee of N ew  York, 
1776, on Jay’s efforts to procure cannon and 
other materials to defend th e H udson River; 
drafts of fifteen letters to L ord Jeffrey Amherst 
and his descendants, d ated  1795–1819, con­
cerning land purchases in New York State; and 
a letter book containing letters w ritten by Jay 
as Governor of New York in 1795–1796. T hese 
letters and papers, w hen examined and p u b ­
lished by scholars, should add m uch to our 
knowledge of the American Revolution and th e 
developm ent of New York City and N ew  York 
State.

•  A first edition of the first book of poems 
by Robert Burns, described as “exceedingly 
rare,” has been presented to C ornell U n i­
versity libraries. The u n cu t copy was printed 
in 1786 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. T he poems 
are mostly in th e  Scottish dialect.

Two other rare books, th e Revelations of St. 
Bridget and a first edition of The Compleat 
Angler, by Izaak W alton, also have b een  ac­
quired by the university. T he Revelations, 
printed in 1500, is one of th e more famous il­
lustrated books in th e incunable period of 
printing. T he Revelations o f St. Bridget was 
presented by th e Cornell L ibrary Associates in 
honor of Felix Reichmann, professor of bibli­
ography and assistant director of libraries at 
Cornell, w ho retired June 30. T he two other 
books w ere gifts to th e  library by A rthur H. 
D ean, a Cornell trustee, in behalf of th e L i­
brary Associates and in honor of Reichmann.

•  Arna W endell Bontemps, popular historian 
and biographer of American blacks, has p re­
sented th e  m anuscript copy of A nyplace But 
Here, a docum ented history of black migration 
in th e U nited States, to Syracuse U niversity. 
T he book was w ritten b y  Bontemps in collabo­
ration w ith Jack Conroy and published in  1966 
(H ill & W a n g ). T he m anuscript is p a rt of the 
Bontemps collection of correspondence, w rit­
ings, and memorabilia in the George Arents 
Research Library. More than a h u n d red  letters 
in th e  collection w ere w ritten by m en and 
women prom inent in A merican literature, the 
black community, and th e theater, among them  
Conroy, Ossie Davis, W . E. B. DuBois, LeRoi 
Jones, Carson Kanin, W alter Lowenfels, F lor­

ence Crannell Means, Jay Saunders Redding, 
Carl Van V echten, Roy Wilkins, an d  Richard 
W right. T he letters reflect Bontemps’ literary 
interests an d  th e progressive stages of his w rit­
ings.

•  P ortland State University library has 
received a gift of a substantial collection of 
materials pertaining to Pacific N orthw est n at­
ural resources an d  hydroelectric power, Ivan 
Bloch has donated to the library his entire 
working collection accum ulated over m any 
years during w hich h e was an engineer and 
head of Ivan Bloch Associates, one of th e 
N orthw est’s most prestigious consulting firms. 
The gift comprises more th an  180 cartons of 
papers and publications, tracing no t only th e 
developm ent of pow er in th e Northwest, b u t 
th e character of th e region’s business activity, 
resources, and population growth. T he collec­
tion is particularly strong in federal, state, 
and local governm ent docum ents on these sub­
jects, an d  also includes m any survey reports 
p repared by Mr. Bloch’s firm.

•  T he Rabbi H erm an H ailperin Collection 
of D uquesne U niversity library has recently 
acquired as a gift from the Pittsburgh Biblio­
philes a rare edition of the L iber Cosri, a tw elfth 
century work by th e Spanish-Jewish philoso­
p her an d  H ebrew  poet, Ju d ah  ha-Levi. The 
book is an original 1660 edition of a translation 
into L atin by th e fam ed Christian Hebraist, 
John Buxtorf, th e Younger. Works of his, in­
cluding th e L atin  translation of M aimonides’ 
M oreh N ebuchim  (1 6 2 9 ), and those of his 
equally famous father, John Buxtorf, th e Elder, 
including his two volumes Biblia Rabbinica 
(1 6 1 9 ), already form p a rt of th e H ailperin 
Collection. Originally w ritten in  Arabic, the 
Book of th e Chazars, as it is called in English, 
was subsequently translated into H ebrew  by 
Ju d ah  ibn Tibbon in 1167— editio princeps, 
1506. I t  is this H ebrew  version w hich Buxtorf 
parallels in th e columns of his L atin Text.

•  Recent acquisitions of th e  U rban Archives 
of T e m p l e  University in Philadelphia in ­
clude th e records of University Settlements 
(1913-1963), th e G reater Philadelphia F ed ­
eration of Settlements (1948-1967), the Phil­
adelphia Association of D ay Nurseries (1898- 
1936), th e Settlem ent Music School (1908- 
1960), th e W harton Centre (1912-1965), th e  
Philadelphia-C am den Social Service Exchange 
(1911-1970), and th e Citizens’ Council on City 
Planning (1941-1965). Runs of two Italian 
language newspapers p rinted in Philadelphia 
have also been received; they are Ordine 
Nuovo, 1936-1951, and L a Libera Parola, 
1918-1968.

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ANNOUNCED REPRINTS
A  cumulative, quarterly (February, May, August, November) publication 
that lists forthcoming reprints— i.e. full-size, hard-bound reprints that have 
been announced but have not yet been produced. It includes books, 
journals, and other materials originating with publishers both in the 
United States and abroad. Softbound. Postage paid. $30.00 per year.

GUIDE TO REPRINTS. 1970.
An annual, cumulative list, in alphabetic order, of books, journals, and 
other materials available in reprint (full-size, hard-bound) form from pub­
lishers in the United States and abroad. Over 38,000 titles issued by 183 
reprint publishers. 255 pp. Softbound. Postage paid, $10.00.

GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1970.
An annual, cumulative list, in alphabetic order, of books, journals, and 
other materials available on microfilm, microfiche, and other microforms 
from publishers in the United States. Over 18,000 titles. 113 pp. Soft- 
bound. Postage paid, $6.00.

SUBJECT GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1970-71.
A  biennial, cumulative list, by subject classifications, to books, journals, 
and other materials available on microfilm, microfiche, and other micro­
forms from publishers in the United States. 110 pp. Softbound. Postage 
paid, $6.00.

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received one of the finest sets of the double 
elephant f olio edition of T h e Birds of America 
by John James Audubon (E dinburgh & Lon­
don, 1827– 1838). I t was presented by Mr. Al­
b ert E. Lownes, th e noted Providence book 
collector, whose Thoreau collection was p re­
sented to the library in 1967.

Several features distinguish the Lownes set 
from others. The 435 folio plates are bound in 
six volumes instead of the usual four since each 
volume is interleaved w ith protective sheets of 
fine, w atermarked paper. Each volume has a 
specially printed title-page to identify the in­
cluded plates. Also of importance is th a t the 
first ten plates are in the earliest state, differ­
ing from plates th a t were later retouched. The 
folio volumes were bound and gold stamped 
in half red levant morocco by F. Bedford of 
London. T h e five volumes of text w hich ac­
company th e plates, printed in Edinburgh 
1831-1839 under the title Ornithological Biog­
raphy, are bound in full red morocco by Bed­
ford. The bindings are in superb condition, 
and the hand-colored plates are strong and 
brilliant.

•  An archive providing an intimate view of 
Carl Sandburg’s development as a poet has 
been acquired by the University of Virginia 
through th e efforts of collector C. W aller Bar­

rett of Charlottesville. The material, w hich in ­
cludes extremely rare copies of the first four 
printed works by Sandburg as well as m anu­
scripts and unpublished poems and letters, 
was m ade available to Barrett by Dr. Quincy 
W right of Charlottesville, former professor of 
foreign affairs a t the university. It will be 
known as the Quincy W right Sandburg Col­
lection and will become p art of the Barrett Li­
brary of American L iterature in the Univer­
sity’s Alderman Library.

A W A R D S /  G IF T S

•  T he Library Association, London, has 
announced th a t entries are invited for the 
award of the Robinson Medal, 1970. The 
Medal is awarded every two years to reward 
the originality and inventive ability of librari­
ans and other interested persons or firms in 
connection with devising new  and improved 
methods in library technology and any aspect 
of library administration. Full particulars and 
forms of application may be obtained from the 
Secretary, The Library Association, T Ridg­
m ount Street, London W C IE  7AE. The closing 
date for receipt of entries is 30th November,
1970.

F E L L O W S H I P S /  
S C H O L A R S H I P S

•  Beginning in the fall of 1970, the School 
of Library and Information Services, Universi­
ty O F  Maryland will offer a special program 
designed to equip professionals to work as in­
formation specialists w ith the informationally 
deprived in various settings, but, particularly, 
in the inner city and with th e undergraduate 
in the university. The program, funded by the 
U.S. Office of Education, will be a thirty-six 
hour program, conducted a t the master’s and 
post-master’s levels. Utilizing th e “Floating Li­
brarian” concept developed by Mary Lee Bun­
dy and James Welbourne, th e realization that 
the professional might best engage in his prac­
tice, apart or detached from the institutional 
base of libraries, will b e explored and d e­
veloped.

The instructional program is designed to fol­
low three main paths. There will be a behavior­
al component planned to enlarge and expand 
the student’s understanding of th e inner city 
and of the role of information and the informa­
tion professional in this context, and a profes­
sional component emphasizing reference-infor­
mation and information organization and dis­
semination. The third major ingredient will be 
a practicum  w here the student will gain field 
experience through a variety of placem ents' in 
various settings for information practice.

For th e program, the school is seeking peo­
ple who have an interest in translating social

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HARVARD U n iv e r s ity  L ib rary 
W id en er L ib rary S h e lf  l i s t

In its effort to com puterize certain of its bibliographical records, the H ar­
vard U niversity Library is converting to m achine-readable form  the shelf­
list and classification schedules of W idener Library, H arvard’s central re­
search collection. As each class is completed, a three-part catalogue of the 
holdings of the class is published in the W idener Library Shelflist series. 
The first p art contains the classification schedule and a list of the entries in 
call-num ber (i.e. classification) sequence. The second p art lists the entries in 
both au th o r and title sequence. The third p art lists them  again chronologi­
cally by date of publication. T hus, each entry appears four times. Each cata­
logue is a valuable tool for scholars and librarians since it makes an im por­
tan t contribution to the bibliography of its subject. Volumes 1 through 20 
average 70 entries per page. Beginning w ith volume 21, all page copy is 
photocom posed in double columns, w ith approxim ately 140 entries per page. 
8 ½  x 1 1 ; durable paper; cloth bound.

Volumes in print:
5-6. LATIN AMERICA. 1966. 1,492 pp., 
27,292 titles. 2 vols., $65.00

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1966. 1,066 pp., 19,643 
titles. $40.00

9-13. AMERICAN HISTORY. 1967. 4,087 
pp., 83,867 titles. 5 vols., $175.00

14. CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA. 1968. 494 
pp., 11,388 titles. $25.00

15. PERIODICAL CLASSES. 1968. 758 pp., 
25,685 titles. $25.00

16-17. EDUCATION. 1968. 1,610 pp., 32,722 
titles. 2 vols., $60.00

18. LITERATURE: General and Comparative. 
1968. 189 pp., 5,065 titles. $10.00

19. SOUTHERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Bhutan, 
Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, India, Laos, Ma­
laya, Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim, Singapore, Thai­
land, and Vietnam. 1968. 543 pp., 10,292 
titles. $20.00

20. CANADIAN HISTORY AND LITERA­
TURE. 1968. 411 pp., 10,212 titles. $17.50

21. LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1969. 
498 pp., 16,900 titles. $40.00

22. GOVERNMENT. 1969. 263 pp., 7,190 
titles. $20.00

Volumes in preparation:
23-24 ECONOMICS. 1970. 1,800 pp., 65,000 
titles. 2 vols., $95.00

25. CELTIC LITERATURES. 1970. 192 pp., 
7,500 titles. $25.00

26-27. AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1970. 
1,600 pp., 50,000 titles. 2 vols., $95.00

28-31. SLAVIC HISTORY AND LITERA­
TURES. 1970. 2,700 pp., 93,000 titles.

4 vols., $190.00
32. GENERAL HISTORY. 1970. 35,000 titles. 

$50.00

33. REFERENCE COLLECTIONS. 1970. 160 
pp., 5,000 titles. $10.00

34. AFRICAN HISTORY AND LITERA­
TURES. 1970. 500 pp., 16,000 titles. $35.00
In fo rm a tio n  su b je c t to change.

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Volumes may be ordered separately, or standing 
orders may be placed for the entire series. All 
orders and requests for information should be 
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com mitm ent into professional action. Individ­
uals are invited to apply who have demon­
strated ability in working in a black community 
or in nontraditional work settings, preferably 
with social action experience. Financial assist­
ance is available to support students engaged 
in study in this program. Interested individ­
uals should w rite imm ediately for application 
forms and be prepared to come to the school 
for a personal interview. Inquiries should be 
directed to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative 
Assistant, U rban Information Specialist Project, 
School of Library and Information Services, Uni­
versity of M aryland, College Park, Maryland 
20742.

•  T he Medical L ibrary Association, U.S.A. 
invites applicants from abroad to apply for fel­
lowships in two types of programs: ( 1 )  a one- 
year program in w hich attendance a t an ap­
proved library school is com bined w ith a lim­
ited  am ount of travel and ( 2 )  a six-months 
program w hich provides for observation and 
supervised work in various U.S. m edical li­
braries, sometimes w ith attendance a t a six- 
weeks summer session course in m edical li­
braries. A monthly stipend, tuition, and travel 
in th e U nited States are provided. Candidates 
usually seek funds for travel to this country 
from other sources. Applicants should be work­
ing in or preparing to work in a medical li­
brary. T hey should be prepared to work in 
their own country for a period of two years af­
ter completion of the fellowship. Proficiency in 
th e English language is required. F or further 
information, inquiries m ay b e  sent to: Mr. 
John Balkema, Chairman, Committee on In ­
ternational Cooperation, M edical Library As­
sociation, W elch M edical Library, 1900 E ast 
M onument Street, Baltimore, M aryland 21205, 
U.S.A.

G R A N T S

•  D owling C ollege in Oakdale, L ong Is­
land. New York, has received a grant of 
$1,275,958 under the H igher E ducation Facili­
ties Act from the U.S. Office of Education for 
th e construction of a library and the rehabilita­
tion of an existing building to provide a Per­
forming Arts Instructional Center. T he proposed 
Dowling College library will eventually house 
a collection of 250,000 books in a 93,000 square 
foot m odem  building designed to blend archi­
tecturally w ith the existing William K. Van­
derbilt turn-of-the-century mansion, “Idle 
H our,” presently the main building on the 
Dowling campus. T he new  lib r a r y  building 
will contain three floors, plus a penthouse audi­
torium seating u p  to 500. Library services will 
ten an t the first two floors; classrooms an d  a 
multim edia instructional center will occupy the 
th ird  floor.

•  The N ational Book Com m itt ee has re­
ceived a grant of $81,844 from th e  U.S. Office 
of E ducation to carry out Phase H of a nation­
w ide E ducational M edia Selection Centers Pro­
gram. T he Phase II  grant brings the total fed­
eral funding of th e program to over $300,000. 
The four-phase program is designed to help 
develop m edia selection centers for use by 
classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, li­
brarians, and other adults concerned w ith ed u ­
cating children and youth. In  Phase I I  a guide 
will be prepared for establishing or developing 
such centers. This guide will be based on an 
analytic survey of existing centers m ade during 
the initial research phase of th e program. The 
Phase I findings w ere accepted in final report 
form by th e Office of E ducation early this year 
and transm itted to E R IC  (E ducational Re­
sources Information C en ter). T he abstract ap­
pears in the June, 1970, Research in, Education 
under the num ber E D  036 201. The American 
L ibrary Association plans to publish this report 
in th e  fall of 1970, under th e title: “E duca­
tional M edia Selection Centers: Identification 
and Analysis of Current Practices.”

•  An anonymous $25,000 grant for th e ac­
quisition of materials in varied disciplines has 
been m ade to th e Texas A&M U niversity li­
brary.

•  A m atching grant of $50,000 to W abash 
College, planning an innovative, library-cen­
tered educational program, was announced to ­
day by the Council on L ibrary Resources. T he 
grant will be m atched by the college in like 
am ount. U nder th e five-year program a t the 
Crawfordsville, Indiana, college, th e  library is 
expected to assume a more focal role in the in ­
struction of undergraduates, thus contributing 
to the greater efficiency of th e learning process. 
T he program is also expected to lead to the 
identification of areas in w hich th e overall re­
sources and services of the library should be 
improved.

In  the first year th e emphasis will be on 
freshman seminars designed by faculty mem­
bers to dem onstrate the nature and th e value 
of th e  liberal arts from th e  vantage point of a 
well defined topic w hich typifies their work. T he 
seminars will show w hat the intellectual life 
can be like by letting the students live a p art 
of it along w ith the professor. A group of u p ­
perclassmen will b e trained to work alongside 
leaders of th e seminars and to use their 
first-hand experience and their sym pathy for 
th e novice who faces new  problems to m ake 
his investigations efficient and profitable.

The Council on Library Resources and the 
N ational E ndow m ent for the H umanities re­
cently announced joint grants totaling $200,000 
to three other institutions of higher learning 
which are also planning innovative library-cen-



Supplement to Evans’ 
American Bibliography

By Roger Pattrell Bristol, University o f Virginia
xix, 636 pp. $35.00
This important bibliographical work attempts to include all items printed in 
America before 1801 which were not listed in Evans’ American Bibliography. 
Over 11,000 titles supplement the 39,000 originally listed by Evans and more 
than 7,000 of these new entries are known to exist only in a single copy. Each 
item is accompanied by a description which makes the books, pamphlets, news­
papers, journals, broadsides, and other ephemera easily recognizable. M icroprint 
numbers have also been given when applicable to provide additional access to the 
reproductions. This Supplement, in essence, completes the bibliography which 
Evans began 70 years ago. It serves as an essential source for a full and accurate 
understanding of early American history.

"A  splendid bibliographical tool in its final form  is now available to that world 
of scholarship which is devoted to America’s earliest printed books. That world is 
eternally indebted to the willing and cooperative spirit of the several men who 
have selflessly given their energy and their special talents to this early period of 
American bookmaking.

"As for the more than 50,000 recorded titles …  these are the blood and 
fabric of America’s formative years.”

— Frederic R. Goff, Chief, Rare Books Division 
Library o f Congress

Supplem ent to Evans’ "American Bibliography” is published for the Bibliograph­
ical Society of America and the Bibliographical Society of the University of 
Virginia.

Index of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers 
Indicated by Charles Evans in His 
American Bibliography
By Roger Pattrell Bristol, University of Virginia
iv, 172 pp. (Bibliographical Society) $7.50
"Roger P. Bristol has again made a substantial contribution to the study of Americana 
through compilation of a cumulative index to printers, publishers, and book-sellers listed 
in the basic volumes. …  His aim has been to aid the librarian, bibliographer, or book 
dealer with book in hand who wants to know if his copy is or is not in Evans’ American 
Bibliography.”—Edward G. Holley in the Library Journal

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in 
Donald Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue o f Books Printed 
in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British 
America and o f English Books Printed in Other Countries, 
1641-1700
By Paul G. Morrison, former Curator o f Rare Books at the University of Chicago 
Library
217 pp. (Bibliographical Society) $20 00
Comprising almost eighty thousand items the Index is a valuable addition to seventeenth- 
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tered programs. These institutions are: Brown
U niversity, Providence, Rhode Island ($100,-
0 0 0 ); D illard U niversity, N ew  Orleans, L ou­
isiana ($ 50,000); and J ackson State C ol­
lege, Jackson, Mississippi ($ 50,000), They,
too, will m atch th e  grants.

M E E T I N G S

Se p t . 14-24: T h e 1970 Conference and
Congress of the International F ederation for
D ocum entation ( F I D )  will take place in Bue­
nos Aires, A rgentina, Septem ber 14-24, 1970.
Participation in the Congress is open to all
those who are interested in th e problem s of
docum entation and scientific information.

Additional inform ation and prelim inary reg­
istration forms are available from: U.S. N a­
tional Com m ittee for F ID , N ational Academy
of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, W ash­
ington, D.C. 20418. F or further information
regarding th e meetings and papers see J u ly /
August C R L  N ew s, pages 218 and 220.

Oct. 11: T he American Society for Infor­
mation Science will hold its 33rd annual
meeting Sunday, October 11, through T hurs­
day, O ctober 15, 1970, a t th e Sheraton Hotel,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “T h e Inform ation
Conscious Society” is th e them e. T he Con­
vention Chairm an for th e 1970 m eeting is Mr.
Kenneth H. Zabriskie, Jr., Biosciences Inform a­
tion Services of Biological Abstracts, 2100
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oct. 2 1-24: T he 1970 annual conference of
th e Pennsylvania L ibrary Association will be
held at the Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia. More
information is available from th e  Pennsylvania
Library Association, 200 South Craig Street,
Room 506, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15113. For
com plete information on th e  program see J u ly /
August C R L  News, pages 220.

O ct. 30: T he D epartm ent of History of No­
tre Dame University, th e Society of American
Archivists, an d  th e N ational Archives an d  Rec­
ords Service (Region 5 ) are cooperating in the 
presentation of a symposium on using th e re­
sources of th e Presidential Libraries. I t will be 
held Friday, O ctober 30, 1970, in th e C ontinu­
ing Education C enter on th e  Notre D am e cam ­
pus. An informal gathering of participants and 
those arriving th e afternoon of October 29 is 
also being planned.

Those desiring to receive a program should 
send their requests to th e following address: 
Regional Archives Branch, F ederal Records 
Center, 7201 South L eam ington Avenue, C hi­
cago, Illinois 60638. T he program and cost of
attending can be found in the Ju ly /A u g u st
C R L  News, page 220.

 
 

 

 
 

 
 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

Nov. 11-14: T h e annual conference of the 
New York L ibrary Association will m eet a t th e 
H otel Americana, N ew  York City.

Nov. 12: T he annual conference of the 
N ew  York L ibrary Association (see above) will 
include a conference-w ithin-a-conference on 
th e Preservation of L ibrary Materials, Novem­
b er 12, 1970. In addition to th e preservation of 
books th e m eeting will concern itself w ith non­
book m aterials such as phonodises, tapes, prints, 
maps, and special collections. T he speakers 
and panelists include V erner Clapp, Carolyn 
H orton, F razer Poole, Jesse Shera, M aurice 
T auber, and m any others. T he m eeting is open 
to nonmembers and per diem registration is 
available.

Nov. 13-16: T h e Oral History Association 
will hold its F ifth  Annual Colloquium, No­
vem ber 13 through 16, 1970, a t Asilomar, on 
th e M onterey-Carmel Peninsula, California. 
Speakers include T. H arry Williams, Boyd Pro­
fessor of History a t Louisiana State University, 
an d  Francis C. Schruben, Professor of History 
at Pierce State College. Panels are scheduled 
on “Oral History and Black Studies” and “ How 
to Make Oral History More Useful”; group ses­
sions will be held on interview ing techniques, 
publishing, processing, public relations, legal 
and ethical considerations, and inform ation re ­
trieval as they relate to oral history projects. 
T he all-inclusive cost is $100. A W orkshop in 
Basic Oral History Methods will be held prior 
to th e Colloquium, N ovember 12 (4 :3 0  p .m .) 
through N ovember 13, for th e  benefit of new 
members. T he all-inclusive cost is $25.

F or registration inform ation contact Mrs. W il­
la Baum, Regional Oral History Office, Room 
486, Bancroft Library, University of California, 
Berkeley, California 94720.

Nov. 28: T he Fifty-sixth Annual Conference 
of E astern College Librarians will m eet at 
Columbia University. The Conference topic will 
be “Research Libraries and th e Publishing In ­
dustry.” Inquiries should be addressed to: Mr. 
Basil M itchell (C hairm an of T he Program 
C om m ittee), Executive Director, Southeastern 
N ew  York Library Resources Council, 103 M ar­
ket Street, Poughkeepsie, N ew  York 12601.

Jan. 6-12, 1971: Following on the XXVIIth 
International Congress of O rientalists Library 
Panel a t Ann Arbor in 1967, L ibrary Seminars 
will be held during the 28th International Con­
gress of Orientalists, Canberra, 6-12 January,
1971. These may be regarded as th e first m a­
jor activities of th e International Association of 
O rientalist L ibrarians set u p  a t th e Ann Arbor 
meetings.



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Apr. 23-24, 1971: Sixteenth annual Midwest 
Academic Librarians Conference a t Indiana 
University, Bloomington, Indiana.

May 3 0-June 3, 1971: The 70th Annual 
Meeting of the Medical Library Association 
will be held in New York City, May 30- 
June 3, 1971.

A letter of intent to submit a formal paper 
for consideration, accompanied by a short ab­
stract, should be sent by September 1, 1970, 
to: Alfred N. Brandon, Librarian, Mount Sinai 
School of Medicine, F ifth Avenue and 100th 
Street, New York, New York 10029. The dead­
line for submission of completed papers is 
February 1, 1971. For information regarding 
the type of papers needed see July/August 
CRL News, pages 220 and 224.

Aug. 22-27, 1971: An International Con­
ference on Information Science will be held in 
Israel on August 22-27, 1971. Papers will be 
presented in the following areas: (1 ) Informa­
tion Analysis and Information Analysis Cen­
ters; (2 ) Retrieval of Information; (3 ) Selec­
tion, Education, and Training of Personnel; (4 ) 
Publishing and Reproduction. English will be 
the official language. Social activities will in­
clude reception by local officials; visits to edu­
cational institutions, libraries, and Israeli homes, 
and optional sightseeing tours. Proceedings will 
be published after the conference. T he registra­
tion fee is $50 per person. Titles and sum­
maries of papers are due not later than Decem­
ber 1, 1970. For further information contact: 
Conference Secretary, ISLIC—Israel Society of 
Special Libraries and Information Centres, 
P.O.B. 16271, Tel-Aviv.

Sep t. 30-O ct. 2, 1971: The Indiana Li­
brary Association will m eet at Stouffer’s Inn, 
Indianapolis, Indiana. F urther information can 
be obtained from Jane G. Flener, President, 
Indiana Library Association, Indiana University 
Library, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.

M I S C E L L A N Y

•  A study started four years ago as an ex­
periment in speeding the purchasing and pro­
cessing of library books for Colorado colleges 
and universities will go into full-time operation 
this year. Located a t the University of Colo­
rado, the Cooperative Book Processing Center 
will serve twelve Colorado colleges and uni­
versities and during the next year it will buy 
and process as many as 150,000 volumes for 
these institutions. Participating libraries are CU, 
Colorado State University, the University of 
Northern Colorado, Metropolitan State College, 
the Community College of Denver, the Colo­
rado School of Mines, Fort Lewis College, 
Adams State, W estern State, Colorado Moun-

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tain College, Tem ple Buell, and Regis Col­
lege.

Overall goal of the cooperative center is to 
cut th e red tape of ordering and cataloging e d ­
ucational materials, thus releasing library staff 
members to help library users. College and uni­
versity libraries using th e center send book or­
ders to th e center instead of to individual book 
vendors. T he center orders th e books and re­
ceives th e books directly from th e vendors, 
then catalogs and provides bibliographic in­
form ation to th e  individual libraries.

Dr. Richard M. Dougherty, associate director 
of CU libraries, who has spearheaded th e  book 
processing center development, said the center 
has cut the costs of buying and processing 
books. F or example, he said, th e acquisition 
and processing cost for the average book in 
1967 was $3.10. D uring th e  experimental peri­
od of th e center last year, th e  cost was $2.70 
for the average volume, despite inflation.

D ougherty said the Colorado center is the 
first operative one in th e U nited States. Plans 
are u n d er way in Ohio and th e New England 
area to start similar centers, he said, b u t the 
Colorado center is the first one actually buying 
and processing books. H e acknowledges th a t 
there are “kinks” in the processing center—some 
college and university libraries are getting fast­
er service than others. B ut h e adds th a t ef­
forts are being m ade u n d er th e state legisla­
tive appropriation to start ironing out these 
rough spots.

T he Colorado legislature this year provided 
$100,000 to support th e  cooperative center. 
H alf the appropriation will be spent on de­
velopmental activities, including th e programs 
for staff librarians on working w ith the center. 
T he other half of th e state appropriation will 
b e used as an incentive for libraries no t al­
ready in the system to start having books proc­
essed. D ougherty said $1.25 per volume of the 
first 40,000 volumes processed will be p aid  for 
by th e state.

O perational status of th e Colorado Coop­
erative Book Processing C enter grew  from a 
$126,000 grant from th e  N ational Science 
Foundation. The grant covered a three-year 
period starting early in 1967 and consisted 
first in a feasibility study of a processing cen­
ter, next in designing a center, and last year 
in a six-month experimental operation. In  ad ­
dition to the N ational Science F oundation grant, 
participating colleges and universities have p ro­
vided $10,000 for costs of th e trial phases of 
th e  center.

E ditor’s N ote: T he following copy was su b m it­
te d  for publication by Mrs. L y n n  Rosen, Co­
lumbia School o f Library Service, Columbia 
University.

•  The Cambodia crisis has had a profound

im pact on academic life in the U nited States. 
Previously, it was accepted th a t w hile many 
individuals in the university community took 
political action, the university as a whole should 
not act. Now, for th e  first time, the role of the 
university is being interpreted in a wholly new  
light. Academic libraries and library schools, 
as p art of the university community, are forced 
to reexamine their own position. I t was for this 
reason th a t on Thursday, May 14, 1970, the 
Columbia University School of Library Service 
sponsored a colloquium to discuss w h at th e 
role of a university library should be during 
times of crisis. T he colloquium took th e form of 
a case study of Columbia University.

F or this purpose, there was a panel rep re­
senting the various factions at Columbia, in­
cluding W arren Haas, D irector of Libraries; 
Allan J, Dyson, representing non-union profes­
sionals; Professor Sidney Morganbesser, rep re­
senting th e faculty; Professor Alan H azen, the 
library school faculty; Joe Popper, representing 
Local 1199; Brian Turner, representing the 
Student Strike Steering Committee; and E d 
Jajko, representing th e  non-striking library stu­
dents. D r. Lowell M artin was chairman. The 
panel and audience considered th e following 
questions: Should or can th e  library remain 
open if the university closes? W h at is th e li­
brary ’s role in a struck university? Considering 
th e need for a functioning inform ation an d  re­
source center, can or should the library re­
m ain neutral ground? If so, w h at are th e  work­
ers’ rights? In the inevitable clash of ideology, 
how  can a w orkable balance be achieved?

T he answers to these questions are n o t sim­
ple, an d  there w ere diverse opinions. M uch of 
the discussion concerned not w hether th e li­
brary should remain physically opened, b u t 
w hether the library should “facilitate” certain 
actions over others on the p art of th e staff: 
w hether, for example, th e library should allow 
an acquisitions librarian to devote h er tim e, 
during this crisis, to procuring literature dis­
trib u ted  on campus, rath er than perform ing her 
regular duties. T here was an awareness th at 
the failure to include workers in the two-day 
moratorium a t Columbia had led directly to 
the workers’ strike on Friday. But there was 
disagreem ent over w hether the workers did in­
deed have th e right to strike at this time. More 
generally, it was suggested th a t the library 
staff could set up revolving duties to allow 
tim e for anti-war activities.

Professor M artin concluded th e colloquium 
by saying: “W e came together for communica­
tion and understanding. I think th ere’s been 
communication. I ’m not so sure of the under­
standing.” We are hopeful th a t the colloquium 
will provide a basis for continuing discussion, 
and will lead to understanding. It is crucial in 
these critical times th a t th e  university library 
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•  International cooperation in  th e  sharing of 
inform ation an d  translations has b ee n  form al­
ized betw een th e N ational Translations 
C enter of th e J ohn C rerar L ibrary and 
two groups outside th e American hem isphere 
—th e  E u ro p ean  Translations C entre in Delft, 
Holland, an d  th e N ational L ending L ibrary of 
G reat Britain, a t Boston Spa. T he N ational 
Translations C enter, o p erated  b y  C rerar and 
partially supported b y  a  N ational Science F o u n ­
dation grant, is th e principal U.S. depository 
and inform ation center for u npublished tran s­
lations into English from w orld literatu re of 
th e  natural, physical, m edical an d  social sci­
ences. T he E u ro p ean  Translations C entre con­
centrates on E ast E uropean an d  O riental litera­
tu re—th e so-called difficult languages, B uding­
ton explained. T h e N ational L ending L ibrary 
of G reat Britain collects translations into E n ­
glish from all languages.

U nder th e  agreem ent w ith  th e two E uropean 
centers, th e N ational Translations C enter of th e 
John C rerar L ibrary will provide distribution 
of N L L  and E T C  m aterials in  th e W estern 
Hem isphere. T he cooperating centers will ex­
change index cards and translations, including 
cu rren t m aterials and a backlog accum ulated 
since the N L L  discontinued sending copies of 
its translations to th e  U.S. Clearinghouse for 
F ederal Scientific and Technical Inform ation. 
As soon as th e new  acquisitions can b e ana­
lyzed an d  processed, they will be cited  in 
Translations R egister-Index, th e N T C ’s semi­
m onthly publication, w hich lists new  acquisi­
tions by COSATI subject categories.

T he N ational Translations C enter is a non­
profit enterprise w hich currently has nearly 
150,000 translations cataloged in its collection. 
Translations prep ared  b y  governm ent agencies, 
industries, professional societies, academ ic in ­
stitutions an d  individuals are contributed to the 
C enter w here they are indexed an d  m ade 
available to others u pon request. T he C enter 
also m aintains records of translations available 
from  other sources. Inform ation on th e  avail­
ability of translations an d  copies of transla­
tions on file m ay be obtained from N ational 
Translations Center, Jo h n  C rerar Library, 35 W . 
33d S t ,  Chicago, Ill. 60616.

•  In  a near-unanim ous vote May 28, 1970, 
th e F aculty Senate of th e U niversity of Rhode 
I sland approved a proposal to give faculty 
status to librarians effective Ju n e 30, 1971, a t 
th e latest. T he senate action w ill have to b e a p ­
proved b y  P resid en t W ern er A. Baum an d  th e 
Board of Trustees to ta k e effect. T h e proposal 
was p reced ed  by th e  following pream ble:

T he librarians of th e  University of Rhode 
Island are responsible for th e developm ent 
of our university library, th e  vital center of 
th e university. In  program s a n d  policies, as 
an integral p a rt of th e university, they should

be afforded faculty status. By full p articip a­
tion as faculty members, for example, by 
serving on university com mittees concerned 
w ith curriculum  developm ent an d  as rep re­
sentatives in th e F aculty Senate, the librari­
ans will certainly be b etter ab le to con­
trib u te to th e developm ent of th e university. 
L ibrarians are an organic p a rt of th e un i­
versity com m unity and can best function as 
professionals as well as contribute m ore cre­
atively to th e university w hen they are thus 
rightly recognized as professional members 
of th e university faculty.

T he proposal itself recom m ended:
1. T h at full faculty status b e afforded to all 

qualified librarians w ho have professional d e­
grees in library service, in a subject area disci­
pline or equivalent professional experience not 
later th an  June 30, 1971.

2. T h at qualified librarians who are eligible 
for faculty status receive all th e benefits as well 
as assume all th e  responsibilities of full faculty 
m em bers as defined in th e U niversity M anual.

3. W ith  respect to salary, th a t librarians re­
ceive th e same salaries for an  academ ic year 
as do other faculty m em bers in th e  same ranks 
and w here librarians are offered tw elve-m onth 
appointm ents, th e ir salaries be adjusted on th e 
same basis as other faculty m embers.

4. T h at librarians b e  eligible for appointm ent 
an d  prom otion to higher ranks on th e basis of 
m erit. (T h e  holding of academ ic rank shall 
be in d ep en d en t of th e holding of adm inistra­
tive app o in tm en t in th e  lib ra ry .)

5. T h a t qualified librarians b e eligible to 
hold additional academ ic appointm ents in  d e­
partm ents other th a n  the library an d  th a t it be 
possible for qualified members of other d ep a rt­
m ents to b e given appointm ents in th e library.

6. T h a t librarians shall have access to grants, 
fellowships, an d  research funds an d  be eligible 
to serve as principal investigators on extram ural 
contracts an d  grants.

7. T h at librarians have access to th e  griev­
ance, ap p eal an d  review  procedures available 
to other faculty members.

8. T h a t librarians presently em ployed re ­
ceive th e benefits an d  discharge th e  duties ap ­
propriate to th eir ranks. (A ll prom otions sub­
sequent to th e granting of full academ ic recog­
nition to the librarians shall b e subject to the 
new  requirem ents. No librarians currently em ­
ployed shall b e dem oted or suffer loss of in ­
come th ro u g h  application of th e new  stan­
dards.)

9. T he following rank designations: Current 
faculty— Instructor, A ssistant Professor, Associ­
ate Professor, Professor; Librarians—Assistant 
L ibrarian, Assistant Professor in  th e L ibrary, 
Associate Professor in the L ibrary, Professor in 
th e  Library.

T h e  proposal for faculty status for librarians



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originated in the University of Rhode Island 
chapter of th e  A merican Association of U ni­
versity Professors over two years ago and was 
referred b y  th e F aculty Senate to its Library 
Committee. T h at committee, chaired b y  Dr. 
Lewis J. H utton, was very concerned over th e 
relative standing of th e  library com pared to 
sister institutions. A ided closely b y  A bner 
Gaines, Associate L ibrarian, and later by 
George Parks, th e  University L ibrarian who 
came in August, 1969, th e  com mittee visited 
other university libraries. I t  w orked carefully 
w ith the university adm inistration to insure the 
feasibility of its proposals. I t entertained sug­
gestions from library staff an d  the University 
of Rhode Island Professional L ibrarians’ Asso­
ciation. Its research an d  its work w ith th e  fac­
ulty  helped to create th e  favorable attitu d e 
w hich culm inated in th e vote taken today.

•  The new  Action C ouncil of th e Ameri­
can L ibrary Association’s Social Responsibilities 
Round Table, m eeting w ith its Clearinghouse 
Com m ittee on Friday, 3 July 1970, a t th e 
close of the 89th Annual Conference of the 
Association, m ade some policy decisions th a t d e­
term ine th e direction th a t th e Round T able will 
take in th e  coming year.

T h e council, sensing th e increasing im por­
tance of d irect action an d  exemplary behavior, 
is coordinating th e work of a num ber of Task 
Forces based on specific projects or specific 
constituencies, rath er than on open-ended 
themes. These 1970-1971 Task Forces include 
groups working on an A lternative Books in 
Print, W om en’s Liberation and the status of 
women in libraries, a  bibliography of th e  peace 
movement, th e place of minorities in profes­
sional librarianship, gay liberation, new  ap ­
proaches to cataloging-in-source, and intellect­
ual freedom.

Since local action b y  th e SRRT Affiliates is 
to b e em phasized, th e Action Council assigned 
top priority to th e m aintenance of an extensive 
communications netw ork for th e Affiliates, th e  
Task Forces, and th e SRRT m embership. W hen 
action is needed, th e response can be called 
for quickly.

T he Action Council’s th ird  decision affects 
the national SRRT program  a t th e  90th an­
nual ALA conference a t Dallas. Instead of 
planning an d  presenting a program  of speakers 
or “entertainm ent,” th e 1971 program will te n ­
tatively feature an environm ent for action. The 
Task Forces and Affiliates will present an open 
forum for the discussion of their actions and 
projects; librarians interested in these sample 
projects or in forming new  local action groups 
to m eet th e specific needs of th eir communities 
and libraries will b e welcome to join in small 
groups and round tables of SRRT mem bers to 
focus in on th e  year’s experiences an d  plan 
specific new  actions. F o r fu rth er inform ation

on th e SRRT Task Forces, local Affiliates, 
Action Council, or Clearinghouse Committee, 
contact the new  Action Council Coordinator: 
Patricia Schuman, 10 W est 16th Street, New 
York, N.Y. 10011.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

•  Libraries and industrial users interested in 
indexes to th e Arkansas G azette, oldest new s­
p ap er w est of th e Mississippi, 1819–to cu rren t 
date, please contact Arkansas Indexing Com­
m ittee, c /o  University of Arkansas, L ittle Rock 
L ibrary, 33rd an d  University, L ittle Rock, Ar­
kansas 72204.

•  T h e Continuing Dialogue is a special 
150-page annotated bibliography of over 200 
books ( published mostly in  th e  last th ree 
years) concerned w ith th e  interaction betw een 
th e sciences, th e  hum anities, education and 
society, and w ith th e relationships betw een sci­
ence, technology and society. Also included are 
books on philosophy, religion, sociology, and 
culture in general. Included are books b y  au­
thors such as Jacques Barzun, Daniel Bell, 
George Boas, H arold Cassidy, René Dubos, 
Robert F. Goheen, Sidney Hook, H ow ard M um ­
ford Jones, E d w ard  H. Levi, H arlow  Shapley, 
George Gaylord Simpson, and H ow ard T ay­
lor. Individual copies may b e ordered a t $3.00 
p er copy from th e  Institute Libraries, Poly­
technic In stitu te of Brooklyn, 333 Jay Street, 
Brooklyn, N ew  York 11201.

•  A lim ited n u m ber of copies of the follow­
ing title are available, as announced b y  th e 
Chicago State College Library—Job D escription 
and Certification for Library Technical Assist­
ants (Proceedings of th e Council on L ibrary 
Technology (C O L T ) Central Region W orkshop 
held January 23 an d  24, 1970) edited b y  Noel 
R. Grego and Sr. M. Chrysantha Rudnik, CSSF. 
68 pages. $3.00, including transportation and 
handling. Send requests to: Mrs. Noel R. 
Grego, H ead, Catalog D epartm ent, Library. 
Rm. 311C, Chicago State College, Chicago, Il­
linois 60621.

•  T he Council of N ational L ibrary Associa­
tions has just published a list of placem ent 
services th a t are available to librarians through 
library associations, library schools, an d  state 
libraries. This guide provides p ertin en t infor­
m ation both to librarians looking for employ­
m ent and to employers seeking personnel. It 
was compiled by D orothy Doyle, library con­
sultant, W ashington State Library, chairman; 
Carlyle Frarey, senior lecturer, Columbia U ni­
versity, School of L ibrary Service; H elen Brown 
Schmidt, executive secretary, M edical L ibrary 
Association; K atharine Stokes, College and U ni­
versity L ibrary Specialist, U.S. Office of E d u ­
cation, Division of Library Programs. Copies 
are available a t 10¢ each, from  the Catholic L i­



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brary Association, 461 W. Lancaster Ave., H a­
verford, Pennsylvania 19041.

•  Details surrounding the earliest history of 
w hat is now Texas A&M University are cov­
ered in the publication, Getting th e College 
Under W ay, by E rnest Langford, university 
archivist. T he 65-page pam phlet issued as 
“University Library Miscellaneous Publication 
No. 2” brings together th e findings of several 
years of research. Copies of the publication 
are available in the L ibrary D irector’s office, 
Texas A&M University, College Station. The 
price is $3.00.

•  Menckeniana, a quarterly publication is­
sued since 1962 from the Mencken Room of 
the Enoch P ratt Free Library, Baltimore, Mary­
land, is devoted to the rambunctious world of 
H. L. Mencken, th e needling influence of his 
ideas on his contemporaries, and the signifi­
cance of these ideas in today’s world. Each is­
sue contains one or more previously u n p u b ­
lished items by Mencken, such as his corre­
spondence w ith Gerald W. Johnson while they 
were writing “History of the Sunpapers,” and 
items intended for another edition of Minority 
Report. Also included are original articles about 
him and a continuing bibliographic checklist of 
w hat has recently come to light, or been p u b ­
lished, concerning him. Annual subscriptions to 
M enckeniana are $2.00.

•  T he newest title to be published by the 
Ohio State University libraries is a Natural R e­
sources Bibliography, edited by Irene Braden 
Hoadley. N atural resources in this work have 
been lim ited to such categories as land and 
soils, minerals, forests, fish and wildlife, water 
and so forth, including the social context. There 
is an introductory discussion w hich elaborates 
the theoretical framework and rationale for a 
view of resource use w hich essentially indicates 
th a t “resources are not; they become.”

The organization of th e bibliography an d  the 
m aterial included are intended to further sci­
entific thinking by including as special cases 
under broader headings topics normally re­
ceiving prime attention in natural resources lit­
erature. Both a subject and a title index are 
provided. The basic compilation of this work 
was done under the direction of the late Dr. 
Charles A. D ambach, Director, School of N a­
tural Resources, Ohio State University. Copies 
are available for $5.00 from the Ohio State Uni­
versity Libraries Publications Committee, Room 
322-A, 1858 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 
43210.

•  In  recognition of the Dickens Centennial, 
the University of California a t Los Angeles 
Library has published Richard A. Vogler’s 
A n Oliver Tw ist Exhibition: A M em ento f or 
the D ickens Centennial, 1970: A n  Essay. Los

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Copies are available a t $1.00 each from the 
Gifts and Exchange Section, Acquisitions D e­
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•  The American Translators Association 
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tries. T he new  directory, produced w ith the 
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computer programs, enables any user to iden­
tify quickly those translators m atching any spe­
cific professional requirements, by consulting 
any of four main Index Sections, w hich are 
arranged by discipline, by source language, by 
target language, and by geographical location 
of th e translator. A directory section provides 
additional data of interest to users. T he new  
Professional Services Directory is available 
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Grove Road, Thorofare, N.J. 08086. Orders ac­

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•  Seven new  sections of the English Full 
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Editor’s Note: The following letter was submitted for 
publication in College & Research Libraries. It was the 
opinion of the editors of both College & Research L i­
braries and College & Research Libraries News that 
since the conference was publicized in the News that 
the letter should also be printed in the News.

To the Editor:
As co-directors of a scheduled ALA Pre- 

Conference Institute on Legal Bibliography, we 
feel an obligation to explain why this institute 
was cancelled.

Our participation in the activities of th e  Law 
and Political Science Subsection of the Sub­
ject Specialist Section of th e Association of Col­
lege an d  Research Libraries made us aware of 
the great interest of librarians working w ith so­
cial science materials in legal literature. The 
good attendance a t th e meeting on th e litera­
ture of the U.S. Supreme Court sponsored by 
the Law and Political Science Subsection a t the 
Atlantic City meeting of ALA further con­
vinced us of the interest of many librarians in 
legal literature.

Consequently, one of th e undersigned, as 
chairman of the subsection, suggested the pos­
sibility of a Pre-Conference Institute on Legal 
Bibliography a t D etroit to the Executive Sec­
retary of ACRL, and received encouragement 
for it. W e then proceeded to lay plans for 
such an institute, recruited additional faculty, 
and arranged for the institute to b e hosted, at 
no cost to ALA, by th e School of Law  of 
W ayne State University. T he Subsection Ex­

ecutive Com mittee m et a t Chicago at th e  M id­
w inter meeting of ALA, and final plans were 
approved by the Chairman of the Subject 
Specialist Section and the Executive Secretary 
of ACRL .

Subsequently, we arranged for free distribu­
tion to enrollees of sample copies of biblio­
graphic tools, and a free cocktail party and 
dinner. All of this would have been available 
to participants for only $50.00, w ith practically 
no expenses incurring to the American Library 
Association; in fact, ALA would have received 
a substantial profit from the institute.

D uring the entire planning phase of this 
meeting, we received no support from ALA 
H eadquarters. All typing and publicity had to 
be arranged for a t our respective schools.

Suddenly, in th e middle of May, we were 
inform ed for the first tim e th a t th e faculty

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