ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 202 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • Georgetown University was recently given a gift of 169 books and 145 volumes of German and international law journals. The presentation was made by the Cultural Attache of the German Embassy, Dr. Juergen Kalk­ brenner, to thez director of the Georgetown University Institute for International and For­ eign Trade Law, Professor Don Wallace, Jr. The gift begins the Heinrich Kronstein Me­ morial Collection in honor of the founder and first director of the Georgetown Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law. Ms. Kronstein has donated books from her late hus­ band’s library to expand the Kronstein Memori­ al Collection. The collection is located in the Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library at Georgetown University and is available to stu­ dents, faculty, lawyers, and others interested in international law. • The Director of Libraries at the Univer­ sity of Alabama in Huntsville has announced that Congressman Robert E. Jones, Fifth Con­ gressional District of Alabama, has donated his congressional papers and other related materials to the university library. This will be a highly unique and invaluable addition to the library as it represents thirty years of service in Congress. During those thirty years, the congressman has asserted a leadership role that has changed the district from rural to one of the most important cen­ ters of high technology in the nation. The con­ gressman has been a constant supporter of TVA and other important projects and current­ ly is the chairman of the Public Works and Transportation Committee. This collection of over 200,000 individual items will be the nucleus around which an in­ creasingly important collection of political sci­ ences will continue to develop. • The papers of Arthur H. Steinhaus (1897- 1974) have been given to the University of Tennessee library. Steinhaus was an eminent physiologist, teacher, and dean of George Wil­ liams College. The collection of about 60,000 pieces of correspondence, personal records, manuscripts, and other material covering his life during the period 1914-66 is available to researchers. His importance to the field of exer­ cise physiology and to the physical education field is well known. As a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, president of the American Academy of Physical Education, and author of numerous books and articles, this collection will be valuable for fu­ ture research. NASSH member, Andrew Kozar of the University of Tennessee, was instrumen­ tal in obtaining the collection for the Tennes­ see library. • The University of T ulsa recently ac­ quired the Robert Graves-Laura Riding Collec­ tion from Dr. Ellsworth Mason, who has been a Graves scholar and collector for over twenty- five years. The collection contains over 800 books and includes at least one first edition of each of Graves works; also, there are approxi­ mately 500 periodical issues with articles by or about Graves. There are 266 letters by Graves, Laura Riding, Sir William Nicholson and Len Lye, along with corrected typescripts by Graves and Riding; also, there are numerous photo­ graphs, recordings, and ephemera. The Laura Riding Jackson portion of the collection in­ cludes a first edition of most of her works. Dr. Mason’s central aim in collecting was “to lay the base for the production of a variorum edi­ tion of the works by Graves.” To commemorate the acquisition a reception-symposium was held at which time Dr. Mason, using the title “The Golden Fleece-Voyages with Robert Graves,” spoke about his experiences as a collector. Another collection of great significance that has been acquired is the library of Cyril Con­ nolly, British literary critic, author, and editor. The collection contains over 8,000 volumes and over 1,100 periodical issues; many of the books are inscribed presentation copies. The collection is primarily a representation of modem litera­ ture, particularly the contemporaries of Con­ nolly, but, also, it reflects the prejudices of Con­ nolly through obvious omissions of works by those with whom he argued or did not like. Since Connolly was known as a “glutton for civilized pleasure,” there are numerous volumes about foods, drink, travel, art, and animals. A significant portion of his library is French litera­ ture, with many rare first editions of authors such as Proust, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Maupas­ sant, de Sade, and Valéry. Many volumes con­ tain annotations, comments, and verse by Con­ nolly. There are letters from Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh, W. H. Auden, Osbert Sitwell, Christopher Isherwood and numerous other au­ thors; since many of the letters were placed in books, the exact number is not known. The col­ lection was obtained from Connolly’s widow. • The University of Arizona has acquired, as a gift of Dr. and Mrs. Nathan S. Kolins of Tucson, the entire personal collection of bibli­ cal archaeology of the late Professor G. Ernest 203 Wright. The collection, amounting to approxi­ mately 700 volumes, was put together by Dr. Wright beginning in the 1930s and continuing for nearly forty years into the early 1970s. At the time of his death in 1974, Dr. W right’s col­ lection was virtually complete for all works in biblical archaeology in English, French, and' German. Dr. Wright was Parkman professor of divinity of Harvard University and a leading biblical scholar as well as this country’s fore­ most Syro-Palestinian and biblical archaeolo­ gist. This is the most important single gift col­ lection received by the University of Arizona Library in recent years. • An important and comprehensive collec­ tion of John Masefield books and manuscripts has been given to Bryn Mawr College by Mr. and Mrs. David Mills. The collection, assem­ bled by Mills’ father, Wilson W. Mills, covers the full range of Masefield’s published work in first editions. Most are signed by the author, and many have additional drawings and holo­ graph verse. The printed material includes an impressive collection of Reynard the Fox imprints. Among them is the 1931 Heinemann edition of twenty- five copies with several pages of verse and a watercolor drawing in the author’s hand. Also noteworthy are the advance English proof sheets of Reynard the Fox with marginal anno­ tations by the author, an advance issue of the 1910 The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, the pamphlet My Faith in Woman Suffrage, and the 1917 first edition of The Old Front Line with the author’s notations. The first edition of Salt Water Rallads is among the most remark­ able volumes in the collection. Beneath most of the poems are notes by Masefield describing the circumstances under which the verses were written. One entry reads “This book was named Salt Water Ballads after other names had been tried. A lithograph, called Salt Water, by Mr. Charles Shannon, suggested the title.” Masefield manuscripts include the autograph manuscripts of Jim Davis; drafts of The Port of Holy Peter; and the typed manuscripts of Reynard the Fox, Son of Adam, and Minnie May low’s Story (published as Emily the Fair). All but the latter have extensive corrections in the author’s hand. The original music and lyrics for the special music number of The Chapbook, December 1920, together with correspondence relating to its publication, make up part of this collection. There are also autograph letters by Masefield to a number of correspondents. The collection is housed in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room at Bryn Mawr College’s Canaday Library. • A 1778 atlas that guided the strategies of French military leaders during the American Revolution has been purchased for the Univer­ sity of I llinois Library by the Friends of the Library and other benefactors. The acquisition honors the nation’s Bicentennial. The large folio edition of “Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional” was published in Paris by G. L. LeRouge short­ ly after France’s entry into the war as an ally of the U.S. The atlas is a compilation of the best maps of North America available at the time and was issued to acquaint French military commanders with the land and sea areas of combat. Admiral Francois-Joseph-Paul de Grasse and Marshal Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau used LeRouge’s atlas to plan their campaigns. French aid was instrumental in the ultimate defeat of the Brit­ ish forces. The atlas originally was published with twenty-one maps; the library’s edition con­ tains nine extra maps not called for on the title page. The most interesting of these extra maps is the earliest known version of Benjamin Franklin’s map of the Gulf Stream. Other areas delineated include North Ameri­ ca, with notes about disputed border claims, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware Bay, New York and New England, and Canada. The outlines of waterways and lakes are hand- colored. The three other known copies of the atlas in the U.S. contain fewer maps. The volume has an eighteenth century mar- bleized paper board cover and includes a French engraving of the famous Benjamin West painting of William Penn’s treaty with the In­ dians. Also in the library’s collection is a comple­ mentary volume, the “Holster Atlas,” a pocket atlas of the British colonies published in Lon­ don in 1776 and intended to be carried into the field by British officers during the Revolution. It contains “an approved collection of correct maps . . . of the British colonies, especially those which now are, or probably may be the theatre of war . . . employed in his Majesty’s fleets and armies.” Such atlases are invaluable source material for scholarly research by historians and geogra­ phers, according to N. Frederick Nash, rare book librarian at UIUC. The UIUC library is known for its outstanding collection of histori­ cal maps and atlases. AWARDS • Eli M. Oboler, director of the Idaho State University Library at Pocatello, has been named recipient of the 1976 Robert B. Downs Award for outstanding contributions to the cause of intellectual freedom in libraries. Oboler was selected for the honor by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence at the University of Illinois at Urbana- 204 Champaign. He will receive a citation and $500. “For many years, he has been an articu­ late and forceful exponent of human rights in general and of intellectual freedom in particu­ lar,” said Professor Herbert Goldhor, director of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence. Oboler has written and spoken widely on in­ tellectual freedom. His most recent book, Fear of the Word: Censorship and Sex, was pub­ lished in 1974. A new work on “Ideas and the State University” is scheduled for publication this year. Robert B. Downs is dean emeritus of library administration at UIUC. The award was creat­ ed by the faculty in his honor upon his retire­ ment in 1971 after nearly thirty years with the library. • Ronald Burt DeWaal has won the 1975 John H. Jenkins Award for bibliography. DeWaal’s work, “The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” was selected for its comprehensiveness and for being a “fine piece of bookmaking,” according to Carl Nie- meyer, chairperson of the award committee and professor emeritus of English at Union Col­ lege. The annual award was established by John H. Jenkins, the rare book dealer of Austin, Texas, after he had been instrumental in find­ ing and returning to Union College the plates from the first volume of J. J. Audubon’s original double folio “Birds of America” stolen from the college library in 1971. Jenkins returned the re­ ward money to the college to establish a fund for the prize. The award is $500. DeWaal is humanities librarian at Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, Colo­ rado. He is also a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a worldwide society of Holmes’ fol­ lowers, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London. DeWaal has catalogued in the book the origi­ nal writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in their various editions and translations. Furthermore, he has listed virtually everything related to Doyle’s famous sleuth, including films, musi­ cals, criticisms, radio and television programs, phonograph records, parodies and pastiches, and even figurines and Christmas cards. De­ Waal spent five years preparing the book. A na­ tive of Salt Lake City, DeWaal holds degrees from the University of Utah and the University of Denver. The selection committee comprises, in addi­ tion to Dr. Niemeyer, of Walker Cowen, direc­ tor of the University Press of Virginia; Ann Massie Case, editor of the Bibliographic Index of the H. W. Wilson Co.; Ernest C. Mossner, professor emeritus of English at the University of Texas; William B. Todd, editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; and W. Loretta Walker, senior reference librarian, Schaffer Library, Union College. G R A N T S • Twelve college and university libraries have been selected to receive grants for the 1976-77 academic year under the Council on L ibrary Resources’ new Library Service En­ hancement Program. The successful libraries, which serve student populations ranging from 842 to over 20,000, are located at Cornell Uni­ versity (N.Y.), DePauw University (In d .), Earlham College (In d .), Lawrence University (W is.), Lewis and Clark College (O reg.), Uni­ versity of New Hampshire, North Carolina Ag­ ricultural and Technical University, Oregon State University, Presbyterian College (S.C .), University of South Carolina, State University College at Potsdam (N.Y .), and West Georgia College. In view of the response to the announcement of the new program last fall (nearly 600 re­ quests for applications were received and more than 200 completed), the council plans to con­ tinue the program for four-year, accredited in­ stitutions for the academic year 1977-78. Each of the award-winning libraries has des­ ignated a project librarian to explore with fac­ 205 ulty, students, and administrators ways of inte­ grating the library more fully into the teaching/ learning process of its institution, and to design and implement creative programs that, in a fac­ ulty-library partnership, will expand the li­ brary’s role in the academic life of the college or university. Several of the successful appli­ cants will be building on programs already in operation; others will be initiating steps that represent a departure from their traditional li­ brary services. The council grant will pay the salary and benefits of the designated librarian, who will be relieved of normal duties for the academic year in order to spend full time on the project. Library funds thus released are to be used to appoint for the year a beginning professional librarian and to pay for necessary travel and re­ lated project expenses. Library directors and project librarians at the award-winning institutions are: Cornell Uni­ versity, J. Gormly Miller and Jean Ormond- royd; DePauw University, James Martindale and Larry Hardesty; Earlham College, Evan Farber; Lawrence University, Dennis Ribbens and Richard Werking; Lewis and Clark Col­ lege, James Pirie and Louise Gerity; University of New Hampshire, Donald Vincent and Hugh Pritchard; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University, Tommie Young and Alene Young; Oregon State University, Rodney Waldron and Laurel Smith Maughan; Presby­ terian College, Lennart Pearson and Jane Pres- sau; University of South Carolina, Kenneth Toombs and Betty Nelson; State University College at Potsdam, William Moffett and Jeanne Dittmar; West Georgia College, Robert Simmons and Virginia Ruskell. In order to ensure that applicants would be competing with peer institutions, the proposals were divided into groups based on the size and general characteristics of the parent institu­ tion. The council asked a team of highly quali­ fied professional librarians to evaluate the appli­ cations and select finalists in each category. Team members then visited those institutions for further evaluation prior to selection of the winners. Chaired by CLR consultant William S. Dix, librarian emeritus of the Princeton Uni­ versity Library, the team was composed of Patricia Battin, director of the Library Services Group, Columbia University; Beverly P. Lynch, executive secretary, Association of College and Research Libraries; Ernestine A. Lipscomb, di­ rector, Jackson State University Library; A. P. Marshall, dean of academic services, Eastern Michigan University; Fred Roper, professor, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Foster Mohrhardt, retired CLR senior program officer. The Library Service Enhancement Program complements the joint Council on Library Re­ 206 sources/N ational Endowment for the Humani­ ties College Library Program, which thus far has provided more than $1 million to twenty- four institutions, each of which has matched the funds provided for its five-year project. The programs promote an increased sharing of re­ sponsibility between faculty and librarians in the teaching/earning process. Applications for the 1977-78 Library Service Enhancement Program may be obtained by sending a self-addressed # 1 0 envelope and mailing label to the program, care of the Coun­ cil on Library Resources, One Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20036. • The Council on L ibrary Resources has awarded a grant of $31,509 to Pennsylvania State University faculty members Edward R. Johnson, associate librarian and assistant dean of libraries, and Stuart H. Mann, associate pro­ fessor of operations research, in support of a study of the effectiveness of the Association of Research Libraries’ Management Review and Analysis Program (M RAP), which thus far has been conducted at twenty-two university and research libraries. Developed by the ARL Of­ fice of University Library Management Studies (O M S), the MRAP program is essentially an internal review by library staff of management practices in the areas of budget, policies, plan­ ning, goals and objectives, communication, per­ sonnel, organization, leadership, supervision, staff development, and general management. Since the MRAP program is relatively new (it began in 1972), no systematic objective at­ tem pt has been made to evaluate its impact. The first step will be to analyze the goals and objectives identified by each institution as it began the MRAP study. Data will then be collected by means of a survey, aimed at evalu­ ating whether the MRAP study has caused changes in the climate, overall performance, and effectiveness of each library and its man­ agement. These changes may be behavioral, at- titudinal, or organizational. Roth questionnaires and personal interviews will be used. Project directors Johnson and Mann hope, through the study, to produce an evaluative tool that will be useful to the Association of Research Libraries, to MRAP participants, and to other libraries wishing to evaluate organiza­ tional development programs. It is anticipated that the study will require twelve months for completion. M E E T IN G S September 16-18: The University of Arizona Graduate Library School is sponsoring a follow­ up to the highly successful 1975 workshop on M anagement by Objectives. It will be held in Tucson at the Arizona Inn. The workshop leaders will include Joseph F. Shubert, Ohio state librarian, and David Tansik, associate pro­ fessor in the Department of Management at the University of Arizona. The workshop is intend­ ed for participants with a basic knowledge of management by objectives. For further information and registration ma­ terials, write or call: Ruth Risebrow, University of Arizona Graduate Library School, 1515 E. First St., Tucson, AZ 85719; (602) 884-3565. September 21: P ersonnel: T he H uman R e­ source in Libraries is the topic of a one-day conference to be sponsored by the School of Li­ brary Science of the University of Iowa. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union. Drawing on speakers from outside as well as within the library field, the conference is de­ signed for librarians who are involved in super­ visory and leadership roles. Morning sessions will be devoted to general considerations of supervision: motivating employees, the super­ visor as group leader, and performance evalua­ tion. Afternoon sessions will cover specific ap­ plications to library situations in the areas of staff development, nondiscriminatory interview­ ing, and collective bargaining. For a program brochure and registration form write to Ethel Rloesch, School of Library Science, The University of Iowa, 3087 Library, Iowa City, IA 52242. September 26-29: The Pennsylvania L i­ brary Association annual conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Penn­ sylvania. The association will celebrate its sev­ enty-fifth anniversary at the conference banquet on Tuesday, September 28. Featured speaker will be Richard Adams, author of the best­ sellers Watership D own and Shardik. For further information contact the confer­ ence chairperson, Mary Elizabeth Colombo, B. F. Jones Memorial Library, 663 Franklin Ave., Aliquippa, PA 15001. September 29-O ctober 1: The Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh will sponsor a three-day national conference on Resource Sharing in L ibraries at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Designed to provide a critical assessment of the present state of the art and a systematic consideration of future strategies in those areas of librarianship where resource sharing has become a critical concern, the conference will be concerned with such ma­ jor topics as the characteristics of an ideal re­ source-sharing network, current progress to­ ward realization of resource-sharing and net­ working goals, obstacles that must be overcome, the economics of networking, and new modes 207 in network evaluation and design. The object of the conference will be to assist library ad­ ministrators in evaluating current and anticipat­ ed future progress in resource sharing as a basis for budget planning and decision making in such priority areas as staffing, collection devel­ opment, monograph and serials acquisition, and participation in consortia. Extensive critical state-of-the-art review pa­ pers will be provided in advance to all confer­ ence registrants and will serve as a focus for the working sessions. Principal speakers will in­ clude Alphonse J. Trezza, executive director, National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science; William J. Welsh, deputy Librari­ an of Congress; Allen B. Veaner, assistant di­ rector, Stanford University Libraries; Connie R. Dunlap, director of libraries, Duke Univer­ sity; Henry G. Shearouse, director, Denver Public Library; H. William Axford, director of libraries, University of Oregon; Roderick G. Swartz, state librarian, Washington State Li­ brary; John P. McDonald, director of libraries, University of Connecticut; James E. Rush, asso­ ciate director, Ohio College Library Center; Donald W. King, vice-president, Market Facts, Inc.; Eleanor A. Montague, director of the Western Network Project, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Participat­ ing members of the University of Pittsburgh faculty will include Dean Thomas J. Galvin, Professor Allen Kent, K. Leon Montgomery, Jacob Cohen, and James Williams. Conference registration is limited. For infor­ mation and registration forms, contact John Fetterman, LIS Building, University of Pitts­ burgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. October 2: The American Printing History Association (APHA) announces its first annual conference devoted to Typographic America, to be held in the Harkness Theatre, Butler Library, Columbia University. The speakers will include; Hellmut E. Leh­ mann-Haupt, who will review his long career as bibliophile and historian of American print­ ing; John Tebbel on “Highlights of American Publishing History”; Edwin Wolf, II on "High­ lights of American Book Collecting”; Joseph R. Dunlap on “The Private Press in America”; Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern on The Role of the Bookseller.” The program will conclude with a forward look at “The Future of Printing in America” by Paul D. Doebler, well-known editor and consultant on book pro­ duction. Also featured will be an exhibition of American printing selected from the Special Collections Department of Columbia University Library and an open house in the Book Arts Press of the Columbia University School of Li­ brary Service. The registration fee for this all-day program will be $5.00 for members of APHA; $10.00 for nonmembers. The deadline for registration is September 15. For further information and application forms, write to: Robert A. Colby, Conference Planning Committee, APHA, 33-24 86th St., Jackson Heights, NY 11372. October 7-8; No-Growth Budget: I mpli­ cations for Academic Libraries. The Cun­ ningham Memorial Library, Indiana State Uni­ versity, presents a conference on issues and problems in the management of a no-growth budget for academic libraries. The program will feature speakers with varied experience and expertise in academic library budgeting process. The conference will provide a forum for stimulating discussion and exploring these current problems. Librarians, faculty, adminis­ trators, and fiscal officers are invited to partici­ pate. Registration will close on September 6, 1976, and is limited to 100 persons. For further information please contact: Sul H. Lee, Dean of Library Services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809. October 11-13: The annual fall meeting of the West Virginia Library Association will be held in Huntington, West Virginia. Head­ quarters will be the downtown Holiday Inn. Local arrangements chairperson is James Nelson, Cabell County librarian. Exhibits chair­ person is Walter Felty, department chairper­ son, Educational Media, Marshall University. October 24-29: OCLC W orkshop. The Kent State University Library announces a five- day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li­ brary school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bibliographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ­ ualized hours working on-line. Source people in a number of remote locations will be avail­ able as consultants and lecturers. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s bibliographic medi­ um ); The OCLC Terminal” (operation, possi­ bilities, limitations, printing attachments); “In- House Procedures” (work-flow adaptations, management implications); and “Teaching Methods ( sharing this complex of information with others). For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, As­ sistant Professor, Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. 208 October 28 29: The second annual Library Microform Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia. November 8-9: A major event in the Univer­ sity of Chicago Graduate Library School’s cele­ bration of its fiftieth anniversary year will be the school’s thirty-eighth annual conference: “Prospects for Change in Bibliographic Control.” Abraham Bookstein, Herman Fuss­ ier, and Helen Schmierer are codirectors. The conference will be held at the Center for Con­ tinuing Education on the University of Chicago campus. Problems of bibliographic control have long been a central concern of the school and have been the focus of three earlier conferences. Economic pressures on libraries, rapidly chang­ ing technologies, and organizational changes affecting bibliographic control make another such conference timely and appropriate. The purpose of this conference is to define clearly the state of bibliographic control today, identi­ fy the variables that will most strongly influ­ ence the evolution of bibliographic control in the future, relate current capabilities to funda­ mental principles, and consider the available alternatives and their consequences. For further details about registration, hous­ ing, etc., write: Abraham Bookstein, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637. November 10-13: The Middle East Li­ brarians Association (MELA) will hold its fifth annual meeting and program at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. MELA will cosponsor a MESA con­ ference panel on Islamic printing and publish­ ing chaired by Richard S. Cooper (Islamica li­ brarian—UC Berkeley) with Fawzi Khoury (Near East bibliographer—Univ. of Washing­ ton) as commentator. Participants are Anthony Welch (Univ. of Victoria), “Islamic Calligra­ phy”; Miroslav Krek (Brandeis Univ.), “The Enigma of Printing the First Arabic Book”; Muhammad B. Alwan (Georgetown Univ.), “History of al-Jawã’ib Press”; and Pierre Mac­ Kay (Univ. of Washington), “KATIB System: A Revolutionary Advancement in Arabic Script Typesetting by Means of the Computer.” Com­ mittee reports and bylaws changes will be dis­ cussed at MELA’s business meeting, at a place and time to be announced. Further details are available from Janet Heineck, Secretary-Trea­ surer of MELA, Room 560, University of Chi­ cago Library, Chicago, IL 60637. For more in­ formation about the MESA meeting please write to MESA Headquarters and Secretariat, 50 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10003. November 14-17: The 1976 annual Aller­ ton Institute will be on the theme, “Changing Times: Changing Libraries,” and will consid­ er likely social trends in the next twenty-five years and their implications for libraries. Spon­ sored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, the institute will be held this year at Century 21 near the univer­ sity campus in Champaign-Urbana. A special effort will be made to attract younger librarians to this year’s institute. The planning committee is chaired by George S. Bonn and Sylvia G. Faibisoff. For the full program and registration forms, write E d­ ward C. Kalb, Conference Coordinator, 116 Illini Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. MISCELLANY • The directors of eight academic libraries in the Chicago area, after meeting regularly for over a year discussing cooperative ways of im­ proving library service have formed the Chi­ cago Academic L ibrary Council. Libraries represented on the council are those at: Chi­ cago State University, DePaul University, Gov­ ernors State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northeastern Illinois State University, Roosevelt University, and the University of Illinois at the Chicago Circle. The council and its subcommittees composed of corresponding staff in each library have been meeting to explore cooperative programs. The first such program to be put into effect on an experimental basis started on May 1, 1976, when six member libraries agreed to participate in a direct borrowing trial. The experiment has been developed to help students, faculty, and staff at the cooperating institutions obtain ma­ terial which might not be in their own univer­ sity libraries. The six member libraries are those at: Chicago State University, DePaul University (but not its law library), Governors State University, Illinois Institute of Technolo­ gy (but not the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Library), Northeastern Illinois State Uni­ versity, and Roosevelt University. The libraries at Loyola University and the University of Il­ linois, Chicago Circle, felt that they could not at this time take part in the program. The program means that students, faculty, and staff at the six cooperating universities have access to nearly 2,000,000 volumes held in their combined institutional libraries. Bor­ rowers with currently valid ID cards from any one of these schools may now borrow library materials from any of the six named libraries. 209 All visiting borrowers are expected to observe the rules and regulations in each library they visit. If they borrow materials, they are en­ couraged to return them to the same point. With few exceptions, all materials in the gen­ eral collections may be borrowed by those eligi­ ble. Special collections will customarily be available for use within each library. More in­ formation about this program is available in each participating library. Further information about the Chicago Aca­ demic Library Council can be had from the di­ rector of any member library, or from the cur­ rent chairperson of the Council: Mr. Adrian Jones, Director of Libraries, Roosevelt Univer­ sity, Chicago, IL 60605. • The UCLA Biomedical Library recently received $100,000 from the Ahmanson F oun­ dation to establish an endowment for the ac­ quisition of resources in nineteenth-century medicine, with primary emphasis on German and Austrian contributions. The endowment is a memorial to Franklin E. Murphy, M.D., fa­ ther of former UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. It recognizes a lifelong interest of the senior Dr. Murphy who had studied in Goettin­ gen, Berlin, and Vienna at a time when the spirit of the great German medical scientists of the last century was the guiding force in medi­ cal education and research. • The twenty-first annual meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin Amer­ ican Lihrary Materials (SALALM) was held at Indiana University, May 2-6, 1976. At the meeting, the Executive Board of SALALM voted to accept the offer of the University of Texas at Austin to house the SALALM secre­ tariat for the next three years. SALALM was organized in 1956 to serve as a clearinghouse for information relating to the acquisition of library materials from Latin American countries. It continues to broaden the scope of its activities and provides a unique service in gathering and disseminating informa­ tion on a wide variety of subjects of interests to librarians and scholars concerned with Latin American studies. For many years the secre­ tariat was located at the Organization of Amer­ ican States in Washington, D.C., under the leadership of Marietta D. Shepard. In 1973, the secretariat was moved to the University of Massachusetts, where Dr. Pauline Collins as­ sumed the post of executive secretary. The Secretariat will be housed in the Benson Latin American Collection. Lou Wetherbee, Latin American bibliographic control librarian of the General Libraries, began a three-year term as executive secretary. The address of the secretariat, effective July 1, 1976, is: SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, The General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. • The race between faculty compensation and inflation was won by inflation for the third consecutive year, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual Report on the E conomic Status of the P rofession. Average faculty compensation for the 1975- 76 academic year increased only 6.4 percent while the average compensation of wage and salary workers in the country as a whole in­ creased two full percentage points more. At the same time, the increase in the consumer price index for the academic year was 7 percent. “Thus,” according to the report, “on the aver­ age the purchasing power of faculty compensa­ tion fell again this year, but very much less than last year, while simultaneously other wage and salary workers about held their own in terms of purchasing power.” In the 1974-75 academic year the average college or university professor had 4.2 percent less buying power as compared with the previous year because of spiraling inflation. It was the largest decrease in faculty purchasing power in the eighteen- year history of AAUP’s survey. This year the average compensation (salary plus fringe bene­ fits) for faculty members, excluding medical school faculties, is $19,910. The report noted that since new faculty re­ cruitment is slowing down, the average years of service of faculty members is increasing. Thus, the increase in average compensation needs to be larger than that of the consumer price index in order to prevent lifetime com­ pensation from shrinking. And yet for the last three years the average increase in faculty com­ pensation has been below that of the consumer price index. This year’s report indicates that only about one-sixth of all faculty members taught at institutions where average salaries kept up with inflation plus a reasonable provi­ sion for in-service increases. The report cau­ tioned: “These trends are ominous for the main­ tenance of the economic status of the profes­ sion. It was quite understandable for faculty compensation to suffer when prices began a sharp unexpected climb and simultaneously the resources of colleges and universities were im­ paired by the general economic slump, but this year those conditions no longer obtain. The slump is ended and everyone is on notice that the prices will continue to rise by amounts within the range of 5 to 7 percent per year for the indefinite future. Educational institutions will have to give high priority to increasing rates of compensation in the neighborhood of 8.5 to 9 percent in nominal terms merely to maintain the living standards of their faculties How to fee l secure when buying a book security system . No one has to convince you o f the need for a book security sys­ tem. Statistics and experience have done that already. The important question now is which system to install in your library. And which system you can feel secure about. The Gaylord/Magnavox Book Security System: The most technologically advanced. The Gaylord/Magnavox Book Security System is the culm ina­ tion o f painstaking planning and research, o f studying the strengths and weaknesses o f existing security systems. The result— a "2 in 1” book security system that is virtually false alarm-proof. “2 in 1” Basically there are two kinds o f book detection systems: The Full Circulation System and the By-Pass System. Gaylord/ Magnavox gives you the option o f choosing either one and convert­ ing to the other almost overnight. False Alarm-Free Y ou can feel completely confident in the accuracy o f the system. Using the most recent developments in integrated cir­ cuitry, it makes positive detec­ tion decisions. So, when you hear it sound, you know a book has been detected. Aesthetically Pleasing We created a system that is as attractive and unobtrusive as possible. Available in a wide selection o f colors and textured finishes, its screens are smaller than those o f many existing sys­ tems. The result is a system that blends well into any library, and can, in fact, enhance it. Economical Competitively priced, the sys­ tem is an investment that should pay for itself in two or three years, depending on the extent of your book losses. After that, as losses are reduced, the system should be generating income in the form o f money saved. 212 and to offer acceptable careers to new gradu­ ates.” According to the report: “The importance of the normal in-service increases is emphasized by a trend that has been creeping along stead­ ily for the last six years at least: faculty mem­ bers are growing older collectively as well as individually. Six years ago 49 percent of the faculty were professors or associate professors. The percentage has increased just a bit every year since but most rapidly in the last two years till it now stands at 57 percent. The cause of course is the slow-down in the rate of re­ cruitment since the middle 60’s.” The report found that the average salary of continuing faculty members (those on the staff for both years) increased by 7.8 percent, slight­ ly above the increase in the cost of living but with virtually no provision for normal in- service increases in compensation. Approxi­ mately 60 percent of faculty members teach at institutions where the increase in salary of con­ tinuing faculty kept up with inflation. This year for the first time it was possible to obtain from the survey an indication of any progress being made in equalization of the sal­ aries of men and women faculty members. The report found little progress. “Last year 34 per­ cent of women were professors or associate pro­ fessors; this year the proportion in the upper ranks is slightly less. One might hope to attrib­ ute this stability to the accelerated recruitment of women as assistant professors and instructors but this does not appear to be the case. Last year 32.8 percent of assistant professors and in­ structors were women; this year the proportion is the same.” The report found that overall the percentage of faculty members who are women fell by nearly a percentage point from 22.5 to 21.7 percent. The proportion of women in two- year institutions with rank fell by more than 4 percentage points. This year for the first time also, salary data for full-time professional librarians are provided by institution in the annual report. These data were obtained from the National Center for Educational Statistics, Library Branch. Additionally, the report pointed out that: The highest paid faculty members con­ tinue to be at private universities, where the average compensation for faculty members is about 13 percent higher than in the public universities. By geographic area institutions in the Pa­ cific area were the highest paying while those in the East South Central regions paid the least. The report was released June 26, at the AAUP’s sixty-second annual meeting at the University of California at Santa Barbara by Donald C. Cell, Professor of Economics at Cornell College. Dr. Cell is the vice-chairman of AAUP’s Committee Z on the Economic Status of the Profession. He presented the report on behalf of Dr. Robert Dorfman (Economics), Harvard University, chairman of Committee Z. P U B L IC A T IO N S • El Miami Herald, a Spanish-language daily newspaper is being offered on microfilm by Microfilming Corporation of America. Cre­ ated by the parent newspaper, the Miami Her­ ald, to serve the needs of Spanish subscribers in metropolitan Miami, the twenty-four-page El Miami Herald began daily publication in March. It includes national, international, and local news and editorial comment, with an em­ phasis on Spanish-speaking areas of the world, especially Cuba and the rest of Latin America. It also contains local news and human interest and service features. The specially selected staff for the paper is experienced in reporting the news for Spanish audiences in this country, Puerto Rico, and Latin America. El Miami Herald is being made available at no additional cost as part of the regular micro­ film subscription to the Miami Herald. It is also sold separately at $60 a year. For more infor­ mation, contact Jean S. Reid, Director, Infor­ 213 mation Research, Microfilming Corporation of America, 21 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452; (201) 447-3000. • Researchers will appreciate having easy access to the contents of 100 little magazines through the Comprehensive Index to English- Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970, which Kraus-Thomson has recently published in eight volumes ($590.00). Series one (this set), cul­ mination of a three-year project, will be fol­ lowed by another series of 100 little magazines also chosen by Charles Allen and Felix Poliak. The set is arranged in one alphabet by name ( author, artist, editor, translator, etc.) under which are listed “works by” and “works about.” Names have been standardized according to the National Union Catalog with cross-references from variant forms and pseudonyms. Names are in all caps, type of article in italics, magazine in boldface. All information is complete and supported by a list of the magazines indexed, with complete bibliographic history and a list of abbreviations. • The Office of University Management Studies of the Association of Research Libraries has issued ARL Management Supplement, vol­ ume four, number one, entitled "Professional Specialists in Academic Libraries.” The author is Keith M. Cottam, assistant director of li­ braries for the Undergraduate Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Sup­ plement is based on a Council on Library Re­ sources, Inc. Fellowship and describes and analyzes the issues involved in the utilization of nonlibrarian professional staff including person­ nel, automation, administrative, and facilities specialists. The Supplement is available from the Office of University Library Management Studies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each copy is $2.00, prepaid. • Foundation grants for international pur­ poses exceeded $75 million in 1975. In a new 223-page spiral-bound printout “International Grants: 1975 Foundation Grants Index Data Bank,” the Foundation Center lists over 870 such grants awarded by U.S. foundations to re­ cipients both here and abroad. The book is divided into three sections. Sec­ tion one, containing the individual grant list­ ings, comprises the bulk of the text. Each grant listing includes foundation name and state lo­ cation, recipient name and location, amount awarded, date authorized, and a description of the grant. Section two contains computer-gen­ erated statistics on the number of grants award­ ed and the total dollar amounts. Access to indi­ vidual grants is provided in section three by five indexes which include approaches by foun­ dation name, recipient country and region, broad subject categories, and key terms. All information contained in this new volume was derived from the center’s foundation grants data bank. This is a computerized file contain­ ing information on over 30,000 grants of $5,000 and over awarded by private foundations since 1973 in all subject areas. The compiler, Jean Ann Martinson, has been systems coordinator at the center for two years. The nonprofit Foundation Center is the coun­ try’s leading research and publishing agency in the field of philanthropic foundations. Copies of “International Grants” can be or­ dered for $35.00 each from: The Foundation Center, 888 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Prepayment is required. • The Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies of the Association of Research Li­ braries has issued Occasional Paper, number four, entitled “A Handbook for the Introduc­ tion of On-Line Bibliographic Search Services into Academic Libraries.” The author is David M. Wax, until June 30, 1976, the director of the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC). The paper provides recom­ mendations to facilitate the initiation of com­ puter search services and discusses areas such as staffing, organization, training, user fees, and equipment. The Occasional Paper is available from the Office of University Library Management Stud­ ies, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each copy is $5.00, pre­ paid. • The New York Library Instruction Clear­ inghouse has published a directory of library instruction programs in New York. New York Library Instruction Programs: A Directory was distributed to contributors in late April. The di­ rectory is arranged alphabetically by contribut­ ing institutions. This section has a succinct de­ scription of each reported instruction program in the state. There is also a comprehensive in­ dex which allows access by specific types of programs. There are 161 libraries listed in the direc­ tory. Libraries which responded to the ques­ tionnaire received a free copy of the directory. Additional copies are available from NYLIC. New York libraries will be charged $2.00 per copy, and all others will be charged $3.00. There is a limited number of copies, and orders are currently being accepted. Checks should be made out to the SUNY Research Foundation and sent to New York Library Instruction Clearinghouse at Franklin Moon Library, State University of New York, College of Environ- Now available for the first time in book format . . . combined cumulative indexes to the complete runs of 531 journals in History, Political Science and Sociology COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS The “NEXUS” computer data base, originally created as a custom bibliographic search service in the social sciences, has been acquired by Carrollton Press and is being published for the library community in 25 hardcover index volumes. More than 350,000 articles from the backfiles of scholarly journals dating back to 1838, were indexed by Subject and Author as input to the NEXUS computer file, and later reprogrammed by us for composition in folio-size page format. The availability of the NEXUS data base in book form will not only result in its more frequent and convenient use, but it will also make it available to students and other patrons who could not afford to spend their own funds for computer searches. Single-Source Bibliographic Access Eliminates Separate Keyword Indexes Under 585 Categories Non-Productive Search Time Provide Precise Subject Access Until now, anyone wishing to make exhaustive retro­ The three sets contain 585 subject categories listed spective searches on certain subjects, or even locate under 101 major subject headings. Because of the size works whose dates of publication were unknown, have of the data base, and the fact that there are an average been forced to search year-by-year through numerous of 600 entries for each of the 585 subject categories, we annual volumes issued by several different serial indexing modified the NEXUS programs to produce separate, services or in some cases in the cumulative indexes to self-contained keyword indexes to all entries listed under individual journals. each category. As a result, each entry is listed under The new Combined Retrospective Index Sets for His­ an average of 3.8 keywords, which gives a total of 1.3 tory, Political Science and Sociology, however, provide million subject entries for the entire collection. not only the equivalent o f long-term combined cumula­ UPDATING tive coverage of several of the indexing services, but also Each set will be kept current with an Annual access to the many earlier issues of those journals which Supplement volume containing both subject and were being published for many years before the indexing author entries. Beginning with coverage of journals services started covering them. Moreover, many of the issued during 1975, the supplements will also in­ journals, such as those in the field of “State and Local clude entries from the backfiles of other journals which will be added to the data base. Prices and History,” have never been adequately covered by general delivery dates will be announced.indexing services. COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN HISTORY 1838 - 1974 More than 150,000 articles from the backfiles of 234 History journals in the English Language have been in­ dexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes. COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE 1886 - 1974 This set contains 6 cumulative subject volumes and 2 cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public Administration and International Relations, from the backfiles of 179 English Language journals. COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN SOCIOLOGY 1895 -1975 From the retrospective collections of 118 English Lan­ guage sociology journals, some 85,000 articles have been indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumula­ tive author index volume. USE THIS COUPON TO RECORD YOUR ORDER AT PRE- PUBLICATION PRICES TO: Carrollton Press, Inc., 1911 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22209 Please record our order for: □ The complete collection of COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX SETS covering History, Political Science, and Sociology, in 25 Folio size casebound volumes (postage paid in North America) $2,075.00 □ COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO JOURNALS IN HISTORY, 1838-1974 11 volumes (as above). DELIVERY, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1976 $ 985.00 □ COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO JOURNALS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1886-1974. 8 volumes (as above), DELIVERY, BEGINNING DECEMBER 1976 $ 750.00 □ COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO JOURNALS IN SOCIOLOGY, 1895-1974. 6 volumes (as above). DELIVERY. BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1976 $ 550.00 Note savings o f $210.00 on combined purchase o f all three sets □ Please send me your free 12 page brochure which describes the CRIS project in detail and presents complete lists of journals indexed and subject categories. N a m e __ ______ ___________________________________ ________________ ________________________________ A ddress_________ _______________________ ________ ____________________ _ Please deduct 5% if payment is enclosed with order 217 mental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210; (315) 473-8615. • Government publications, once a small and well-tended plot, have grown into a tan­ gled growth of directories, regulations, reports, technical studies, and handbooks. W ith the publication of Government Publications: A Guide to Bibliographic Tools, the Library of Congress provides a path through the govern­ ment literature thicket for both professional li­ brarians and the general public. Scholars and researchers will especially wel­ come this new edition of James B. Child’s pi­ oneering effort in the field, Government Docu­ ment Bibliography in the United States and Elsewhere, third edition, published by the li­ brary in 1942. The new edition, prepared hy Vladimir M. Palic of the Serials Division, rep­ resents an eight-fold enlargement of Dr. Child’s earlier work. Five major geographic area designations— the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa, Near East, and Asia and the Pacific area—provide the framework for the materials cited. U.S. fed­ eral, state, and local government publications are listed separately as are those of interna­ tional organizations. Introductory comments to each section evaluate and analyze the level of bibliographic activity. To fill the gap when cur­ rent national bibliographies or lists of official publications are lacking, the guide offers gen­ eral and specialized bibliographies, annual re­ ports of government offices, catalogs, checklists, price lists, indexes, and accession lists as alter­ native sources. Most of the bibliographic ma­ terial included in the guide is found in the col­ lections of the Library of Congress. Annotations are kept as brief as possible, outlining the scope and period covered. When available, the Li­ brary of Congress catalog entries and call num­ bers are furnished throughout the guide. The forty-page index contains selected per­ sonal and corporate authors, titles of works, names of geographic areas, names of interna­ tional government organizations, and references from acronyms and initialisms to the expanded form of name. Government Publications: A Guide to Biblio­ graphic Tools, fourth edition, is available for $6.70 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. • The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress houses one of the largest general reference collections in the world. A subject guide to this impressive, 44,000-volume collec­ tion is now available in a 638-page bound pub­ lication, The Library of Congress Main Read­ ing Room Reference Collection Subject Cata­ log. Arranged alphabetically by Library of Congress subject headings, the new catalog contains multiple entries for the 11,000 mono­ graphs and 3,000 serials which were in the reference collection on January 1, 1975. A spe­ cial characteristic of the catalog is the applica­ tion of numerous additional subject headings to provide greater depth and consistency in subject indexing. The Main Reading Room reference collection is particularly strong in the humanities, social sciences, and bibliography; it also contains over 900 Library of Congress publications. Libraries throughout the world may find this catalog helpful in reviewing and building their own reference collections. The first Library of Congress computer-pro­ duced catalog to list both monographs and serials, the publication is a joint product of the General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Department (th e former Ref­ erence D epartm ent), and the MARC Develop­ ment Office, Processing Department. It was compiled by Katherine Ann Gardner, Public Reference Section, General Reference and Bib­ liography Division. A classified catalog ar­ ranged by call number is planned for 1977. The subject catalog is available for $13 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Gov­ ernment Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (stock No. 030-001-00067-2). Copies may be obtained in person at the Information Counter in the Library of Congress Building. • The Serials Librarian is a new quarterly journal to be published fall 1976 by the Haworth Press. Edited by Peter Gellatly, head of the Serials Division, University of Washing­ ton Libraries, the new journal is devoted main­ ly to practical aspects of serials acquisitions, management, and control. Articles in the charter issue include: “Joining Art and Technics at the Serials Desk” by Bill Katz; “The Subscription Agency and Lower Se­ rials Budgets” by Frank Clasquin; “Entry of Serials” by Mary Ellen Cooper; “Microform Serials Collections: A Systems Analysis” by R. J. Coffman; an annotated bibliography on unique identifiers for serials, and abstracts of journal articles relating to serials librarianship published elsewhere. Subscriptions to The Serials Librarian cost $18.00 (price includes index), and may be or­ dered from: The Haworth Press, 174 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Canadian orders require $2.00 additional for postage and han­ dling; other foreign orders $5.00 additional. • The University Library of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, announces the publi­ cation of its 170-page A Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections in the University of Ar­ kansas Library. The guide contains 211 descrip­ 218 tive entries for that number of large and small historical and literary collections, most of which pertain to Arkansas and Arkansans, and a forty- five-page index. Compiler of the guide is Sam Sizer, Curator of Special Collections. Copies may be ordered, at $3.00 each, from Special Collections, University Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701; checks should be made payable to “University of Ar­ kansas Library.” • A current annotated listing of the most useful and informative publications about li­ brary cooperation can be found in a new ERIC at Stanford paper, A Selected Bibliography on Multitype Library Service, 1970-1975. The twenty-one-page bibliography was com­ piled by Jean L. Connor of the Public Library Association Interlibrary Cooperation Commit­ tee, with the cooperation and assistance of sev­ eral other committees of the American Library Association. Although prepared especially for distribution at the ALA’s summer 1976 confer­ ence, the paper is considered useful for all li­ brarians interested in this subject. Its annotated entries cover; bibliographies and directories of library cooperation, national level planning and programs, state and inter­ state level planning and programs, and varied approaches to multitype library cooperation. All entries include complete ordering informa­ tion on both ERIC and non-ERIC materials. A five-page introduction discusses state and inter­ state level planning and the ALA and multitype library cooperation. A Selected Bibliography on Multitype Li­ brary Service is available for $1.50 from; Box E, School of Education, Stanford Univer­ sity, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks must be in­ cluded with orders and made payable to “Box E.” Purchase orders cannot be filled. A 15 percent discount is given to orders of ten or more copies. I t also will be available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service when its ED number is announced. • A Guide to Local Historical Material in the Libraries of South Central New York State has just been published. This 188-page book is an up-to-date listing of historical materials dealing with the history and development of the south central region of New York State. In­ cluded in the listing are such items as atlases, gazetteers, biographies, church and school his­ tories, cookbooks, diaries, directories, material on folklore of the area, genealogies, guide­ books, highway reports, materials about Indians of the area, military histories, and school dis­ trict reports. The guide includes a subject in­ dex. All items are located in the 122 public li­ braries in the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Dela­ ware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tio­ ga, Tompkins, and Yates. Included also are the holdings of the largest academic library in the area—the Cornell University Libraries. The in­ formation was compiled by a committee of li­ brarians working through the South Central Re­ search Library Council, a consortium of public and private research libraries. Final publication was made possible by a grant from the A. Lind­ say and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation. The guide is being sold at the price of $3.00. Orders may be placed by writing to the South Central Research Library Council, Sheldon Court-College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850—Attn; Order Dept. Make checks payable to: South Central Research Library Council. • The Caribbean Research Institute has an­ nounced its latest publication, A Selected, An­ notated Bibliography of Caribbean Bibliogra­ phies in English, compiled and edited by Dr. Henry C. Chang, director of the Bureau of Li­ braries, Archives, and Museums, of the Govern­ ment of the U.S. Virgin Islands. This publication is the first guide to Carib­ bean bibliographies in English, consisting of books, pamphlets, and documents. The fifty- four-page bibliography is designed as a refer­ ence tool for the student, scholar, and research­ er in the culture, history, geography, literature, sociology, economics, and science of the islands in the Caribbean. Each of the 100 bibliogra­ phies included is annotated and indexed. A limited supply of this publication is avail­ able for sale at $1.00 per copy. To obtain copies, please contact Dr. Norwell Harrigan, Director, Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Vi 00801. Please make checks payable to Caribbean Re­ search Institute. • Retrenchment in Higher Education: Im ­ plications for Libraries, a fifty-minute black- and-white videotape, is now available from the State University of New York at Albany. The featured speakers, G. Richard Wynn of Cedar Crest College, Millicent D. Abell of SUNY Buffalo, and C. James Schmidt of SUNY Al­ bany, address questions that face libraries in a time of shrinking budgets. The videotape was filmed at the first Eastern New York chapter of ACRL Conference held at Albany on Novem­ ber 14, 1975. A one-half-inch videotape (EIA J) may be borrowed from the Film Library, State Univer­ sity of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. A fee of $3.00 is charged to help defray the cost of mailing. ■ ■ INTRODUCING BRODART’S BOOK INFORMATION SYSTEM . IT’S ABOUT T IM E. Think of the time you spend verifying citations. Think of the time you spend preparing and placing an order for books. Think of the time you waste ordering unavailable books from sources that are weeks, sometimes months old. Brodart's new Book Information System can save you that time. It offers you the combined intelligence of numer­ ous data bases, including Brodart's own inventory file, and is updated and fully cumulated monthly to keep you current. The new desktop ROM 3 COMTERMINAL® makes The System compact ano easy to use in your library. Faster order placement, more complete order fulfillment, more timely and accurate publication status and cost informa­ tion for tighter budget control. If those are benefits that interest you, then so should our new Book Information System. Whether you use it to order from us or not, it's still the mos' complete, convenient, afford­ able citation verification tool ever offered to the library com­ munity. And it's about time. The time you save.