ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 8 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A recent acquisition of one of the finest private collections on George Frederick Handel, in combination with the primary Handel sources already there, has thrust Princeton University’s Library into the forefront as a center for early English eighteenth-century mu­ sical study. The collection is that of Dr. James S. Hall, of Walmer, England, physician and Handel en­ thusiast whose avocation in music has involved more than forty years as organist and choirmas­ ter of a church in Deal. Princeton was able to acquire the collection recently by private sale. Gifts from eight friends of the library, supple­ mented by a special library endowed fund, made the purchase possible. While the collection does not contain auto­ graph manuscripts of the composer (that is, so- called primary sources), the great value of the Hall collection resides primarily in its large number of eighteenth-century printed editions of Handel’s music. In addition, the collection contains a small group of eighteenth-century musical manu­ scripts; some forty eighteenth-century librettos of Handel’s operas and oratorios, including the libretto for the last performance of Messiah to be led by the composer himself, eight days before his death on April 6, 1759; various books, prints, and early newspapers; and some twenty boxes of Hall correspondence to and from other Handelians all over the world. • A rare book published in 1486 containing several printing firsts has become the two mil­ lionth volume in Wilson Library at the Uni­ versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, the first English sporting book, was presented to the library by Frank Borden Hanes of Win­ ston-Salem during University Day ceremonies on the campus October 12, 1974. The book, a gift of the Hanes Foundation, was accepted by University Librarian James Govan. The special observance marked the 181st anniversary of the founding of UNC, the nation’s oldest state uni­ versity. The book will join the Hanes Collec­ tion of Incanabula in the Rare Book Room. The rare volume is the first English book with color printing. It also contains the first printing of the English coats of arms. It is re­ garded as one of the rarest publications of the Schoolmaster Printer of St. Albans, England. Only eight known copies of The Book of Hawk­ ing, Hunting and Heraldry survive today from the first printing in 1486. The binding is eigh­ teenth-century crimson morocco with gilt bor­ ders and back. Another unusual feature of the book, according to Dr. Lawrence London, cura­ tor of the Rare Book Collection, is a section containing English popular rhymes written by a woman, Dame Juliana Barners. Her verses de­ scribe the hunting of deer, hares, boars, and wolves. The library’s one millionth book, also a gift from the Hanes Foundation of Winston-Salem, was received in 1960. Entitled The Confessio Amantis, by John Gower, the book was printed in 1483 by England’s first printer, William Cax- ton. The Hanes Collection of Incanabula, estab­ lished in 1929, now contains about 800 titles. The two millionth book will be on display in the Rare Book Room of the university library. • The Billy Graham library and archives will be located on the Wheaton College (Illinois) campus, according to Dr. P. Kenneth Gieser, chairman of the college’s Board of Trustees. The action of the directors of the Graham Association brings together materials which are currently housed in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Montreal, Chicago, Charlotte, and the association’s international offices. The collec­ tions represent the evangelist’s thirty-five-year ministry, including twenty-five years in large- scale evangelism. “Dr. Graham’s personal asso­ ciation with the college as an alumnus and trustee make it especially appropriate to locate the materials at Wheaton,” Dr. Hudson T. Ar- merding, Wheaton College president, said. It is anticipated that Graham’s papers, man­ uscripts, documents, radio-TV tapes, films, files, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia will be in­ cluded in the library and archives center. A professional staff will collect, process, maintain, and supervise use of the materials. However, copies of some original manuscripts will remain at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Details of the Graham complex are yet to be completed, according to college officials. The projected site is college- owned property near the college’s library and graduate school. • The University of Oregon Library has received the working files of Frederick Enos Woltman, including manuscripts, correspon­ dence, and subject files. Woltman, newspaper writer for the New York World-Telegram and Sun and Scripps- Howard newspapers, was born in York, Penn­ sylvania, March 6, 1905, and studied at the University of Pittsburgh, earning his bachelor and master of arts degrees in 1927 and 1928, 9 respectively. He taught philosophy and ethics there in 1929 while working on a doctoral de­ gree, which he did not complete. Two articles which he co-authored with William Nunn con­ cerning the Pennsylvania coal and iron police and their cossack-like tactics were published in The Nation and The American Mercury. His appointment at the university was subsequently revoked. His writing had attracted the attention of Roy W. Howard of Scripps-Howard, and in 1929 he joined the staff of the New York Tele­ gram (later to become the New York World- Telegram and Sun). In his early career he in­ vestigated municipal graft, real estate mortgage companies, and labor racketeers, the latter leading to the removal and conviction of a local Motion Picture Operators’ Union czar and pav­ ing the way for investigation of other dishonest union leaders. In 1932 he and Joseph Lilly collaborated on a series exposing the real estate mortgage and bond racket, which helped the World-Telegram win the Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished and meritorious public service,” and in 1934 he re­ ceived honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for “clear, exact and under­ standing writing in reporting the status of vari­ ous banks in suburban areas of New York after the national (bank) holiday.” Frederick Woltman was one of the first news­ paper writers to start a systematic exposé of Communist infiltration into education, labor unions, church groups, the government, and Negro groups, as well as making documented exposés of Communist front organizations. In 1947 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for “articles exposing Communism,” based on several series of articles, included among which were the repudiation of his Com­ munist supporters by National Maritime Union President Joseph Curran; the prediction of Earl Browder’s expulsion from the Communist Par­ ty; and the uncovering of Gerhard Eisler as the top agent of Moscow in the United States. In his 1954 five-part series entitled “The Mc­ Carthy Balance Sheet,” he concluded after three months’ research that McCarthy “without question helped make the man in the street more security conscious,” but he had long since “become a major liability to the cause of anti- Communism.” Although his reporting on Communist issues covered the years from 1938 to 1956, he also wrote articles and features on a diversity of subjects including police brutality, the Ame- rasia case, anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and personality profiles, and he regularly cov­ ered the circus openings of the Ringling Broth­ ers’ Circus, beginning in 1939. Besides the Pulitzer Prize, he won the 1943 Page One Award of the Newspaper Guild of New York, the Heywood Broun Award of the American Newspaper Guild, the Silurian Annual Award (1946), and an AMVETS Special Citation (1950). M E E T IN G S January 20-22: On-Line Searching. A three-day conference dealing with the use of on-line terminal searching for reference li­ brarians will be held at Pratt Institute. Spon­ sored by the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Library and Information Science, this con­ ference is the second in the series “Library and Information Center Up-Date 19— .” Techniques for search strategies will be discussed and types of systems will be evaluated for search­ ing potentials. The conference will relate the simple telephone networking of today with the on-line searching of tomorrow. The conference is designed for reference li­ brarians who are beginning or who may be looking into utilizing on-line terminals for searching, plus those who are interested in using centralized computer sources. Librarians from special libraries and information centers, and academic and public libraries are invited to participate. Registration is limited to forty. The fee is $125 and the deadline for registra- ton is January 6, 1975. Two guest lecturers will discuss the topic “Search Strategy and Evaluation—Perspectives” on the first day of the conference. The other two days will be devoted to training in the use of on-line terminal facilities for searching. Everett Brenner, who is director of the series, is manager of the Central Abstracting and Index­ ing Service of the American Petroleum Insti­ tute. He has lectured at Pratt for nine years and at the City University of New York, Graduate Division. The second lecturer, Martha E. Wil­ liams, is director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Ur­ bana. For fifteen years prior to joining the Il­ linois faculty, she was manager of information science at IIT Research Institute in Chicago. So that everyone attending the conference will have maximum on-line time with the sys­ tems and individual guidance in searching them, participants will work in small groups under the guidance of search experts. Three data bases will be utilized as examples of the types of systems available: Chemical Abstracts, which utilizes a natural-language format; ERIC, which utilizies a controlled vocabulary with a thesaurus; and American Petroleum Institute, which utilizes a highly controlled vocabulary with a thesaurus. The New York Times Infor­ mation Bank will also be searched. For additional information and registration 10 form, call or write the Graduate School of Li­ brary and Information Science, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 11205; (212) 636-3704. April 4: The New England Chapter of ACRL is planning a Conference on Writing and Publishing for Librarians in the Boston area. Further information is available from: Thomas H. Cahalan, Chairperson, Steering Committee, ACRL New England Chapter, 12 Dodge Library, Northeastern University, Bos­ ton, MA 02115. April 27-30: Computers and Reference. The twelfth annual Clinic on Library Appli­ cations of Data Processing will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois. The theme of this clinic will be “The Use of Computers in Literature Searching and Related Reference Activities in Libraries.” Over the last decade we have witnessed a very rapid growth in the availability of ma­ chine-readable data bases and of information retrieval systems for the exploitation of such data bases. The rapid developments in this area have put machine literature searching capabilities within the reach of many libraries. Many data bases can already be accessed on­ line by individual libraries. Service from other data bases can be obtained from the producer of the data base or from one of the scientific information dissemination centers. We are now beginning to see the devel­ opment of regional information centers, de­ signed to make a wide range of machine-read­ able files accessible to all the libraries in a designated geographic region. In addition, the minicomputer has put data processing capa­ bilities within the reach of even quite small libraries, allowing such libraries to develop their own special data bases and to exploit these on behalf of a particular user group. One result of these activities has been the emergence of the “information services libra­ rian,” a professional librarian who specializes in the exploitation of machine-readable files. It is these activities, and their impact on the reference functions of libraries of all types, that will be discussed at the 1975 clinic. F. W. Lancaster, professor of library science, is chairman of the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Brandt Pryor, Of­ fice of Continuing Education and Public Ser­ vice, University of Illinois, 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. May 15-17: Library Orientation. The Eastern Michigan University Center of Educa­ tional Resources is planning the fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academ­ ic Libraries to be held on the EMU campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The program will include speakers, discussions, and working sessions. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents are invited. Registration will be limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to Hannelore Rader, Orientation Li­ brarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. May 18-30: Administrators. The College of Library and Information Services, Univer­ sity of Maryland, is planning the ninth annual Library Administrators Development Program. Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management, Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past eight summers, partici­ pants will include senior administrative person­ nel of large library systems—public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school— from the United States and Canada. The facul­ ty is made up of well-known scholars, educat- tors, management consultants, and lecturers drawn from universities, government, and con­ sulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ munication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technol­ ogy, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. May 22-24: The twentieth annual meeting of the Midwest Academic Librarians Confer­ ence will be held at the Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio. The theme will be “Magic and Libraries.” Contact Rita Hirsch- man, Main Library, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, for information and reg­ istration materials. June 15-20: XX SALALM. The XX Semi­ nar on the Acquisition of Latin American Li­ brary Materials will convene in Bogota, Colom­ bia, at the invitation of Dr. Jorge Rojas, direc­ tor of the Institute Colombiano de Cultura. Mr. Luis Eduardo Acosta Hoyos, Jefe de la Biblioteca, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Bogota, and Mr. J. Noe Herrera, manager, Libros de Colombia, Bogota, are assisting the SALALM planning committee with local ar­ rangements for the meeting. The program, being planned by Mrs. Emma 11 C. Simonson, president of SALALM, will be concerned with the new writers of Latin Amer­ ica. Among the topics to be discussed will be the publications of new writers, bibliography of new writers, and criticism of new writers. Full details of the program and information con­ cerning other arrangements for the seminar will be distributed in the fall of 1974. Address inquiries concerning the program to Mrs. Emma C. Simonson, Latin American Li­ brarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Other questions may be directed to Mrs. Pauline P. Collins, Executive Secretary of SALALM, Secretariat, University of Massa­ chusetts Library, Amherst, MA 01002. Mem­ bership in SALALM is $10.00 for personal members ($7.00 for members from Latin America and the Caribbean) and $25.00 for institutions. Dues may be forwarded to the Secretariat. June 22-25: Law Librarians. The Amer­ ican Association of Law Libraries will meet in the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, Califor­ nia. More information from AALL, 53 W. Jack- son Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. June 26-28: Collective Bargaining. “Col­ lective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Implications for Governance and Faculty Status for Librarians” will be the topic of a precon­ ference meeting in San Francisco. Sponsored by the ACRL Academic Status Committee, the program is part of the continuing effort of the committee to provide information which will help librarians in understanding and evaluating status and governance issues. Program participants will include persons who have studied and practiced collective bar­ gaining in higher education and who can ad­ dress the following subtopics: nature of col­ lective bargaining and its influence on gov­ ernance in higher education; objectives of various collective bargaining agents; and aca­ demic library experiences with collective bar­ gaining. Further information and registration forms will be available after March 15, 1975, from: Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary, Asso­ ciation of College and Research Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. M IS C E L L A N Y • A comprehensive Learning Resources D esign Project has been established at Gar­ rett-Evangelical (United Methodist) and Sea- bury-Western (Episcopal) Theological Sem­ inaries in Evanston, Illinois. This study, brought about by the boards of trustees of the two seminaries, is projected through May 1975. Its purpose is to analyze library resources, po­ tential growth, and space needs to the year 2000 and to propose alternative solutions for both institutions. The libraries of both schools have been functionally united for more than five years to maximize economy in purchasing, to develop areas of specialty, and to avoid dupli­ cations. Demands on this library system will in­ crease this fall with the influx of students and faculty from Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois, with which Garrett official­ ly merged in January 1974. The project will consist of eight interrelated studies: (1) an analysis of the present collec­ tions; (2) a survey of library users’ present pat­ terns; (3) a poll of faculty, student, alumni, and staff expectations; (4) a study of institu­ tional needs; (5) a systems analysis of the li­ brary, Religious Education Curriculum Labora­ tory, and media services; (6) a cost-effective­ ness survey; (7) a study of automation in infor­ mation storage and retrieval, and library pro­ cesses; and (8) a resource allocation study. The studies will include books, periodicals, and other printed learning materials as well as film­ strips, computer-assisted instruction, video and audio tapes. The Learning Resources Design Project is di­ rected by John Batsel (Evanston) with staff teams of librarians and consultants. • Applied Communication Research, Inc. (ACR) is currently developing a guidebook for innovation in scientific and technical communi­ cation under a contract from the Office of Sci­ ence Information Service, National Science Foundation. The purpose of this guidebook is to encourage innovation in scientific and techni­ cal communication by supplying data on inno­ vations which will enable a potential innovator to identify and evaluate those techniques which might be applicable to his particular area. The foundation has observed and is con­ cerned over the slow rate of advancement in the state of the art of transferring scientific and technical information from the originator to the user. The foundation believes this hinderance to scientific and technical progress must be overcome and that dissemination innovations must be identified, encouraged, developed, and made available to the scientific community. The foundation and ACR are confident that there are many innovative dissemination sys­ tems, devices, and practices in use; that there are many “inventors” without the means to de­ velop their innovations; and that there are many innovators seeking devices and tech­ niques which they might use to improve scien­ tific communication. The purpose of this project is to identify these inventors and innovations, to prepare a guidebook which will describe the innovations and assist in evaluating them, and to develop a list of innovators to whom this guidebook should be sent. 12 The project emphasizes innovations that have, to some extent, proven value for scientific and technical communication, most particularly those systems and devices that invite wider ap­ plication and, perhaps, commercial develop­ ment in support of original dissemination in various fields of science and technology. ACR’s task is to seek out these various elements, sum­ marize the data, and place it in a form for com­ munication to those who have the potential to use this information for improving scientific and technical communication. There are two separate contractors working on this project, and the foundation has asked each contractor to include the following para­ graph in all communications to the public. The National Science Foundation has awarded contracts to Capital Systems Group, of Rockville, Maryland, and to Applied Communication Research, Inc. of Stanford, California, for the development of a planning guide. The guide is in­ tended for use by publishers, editors and individuals of allied responsibility. It will be entitled “Innovation in the Dissemina­ tion of Scientific and Technical Informa­ tion.” Working independently, the two contractors will approach selected orga­ nizations and individuals for assistance. A few sources may be approached by both of them. In all cases, the Foundation will appreciate whatever courtesy its contrac­ tors may receive. If you are interested in the guidebook, or are aware of or are using innovations which you feel should be included in this guidebook, please contact Applied Communication Re­ search, Inc. at P.O. Box 5849, Stanford, CA 94305. • Ronald F. Miller, director of NELINET, has announced that the Council for Comput­ erized Library Networks (CCLN) has re­ cently completed its organizational phase and is now ready to receive member applications from other operating networks. CCLN, according to Mr. Miller, chairperson of the ten-network organization, provides a forum in which colleagues may identify com­ mon problems relating to library network devel­ opment and operation and coordinate solutions to them. Its primary purpose is to furnish an avenue through which computerized library networks can be built and administered. Charter memberships in CCLN include the following: Cooperative College Library Center, Inc. (CCLC), Federal Library Committee (F L C ), Five Associated University Libraries (FA U L), Interuniversity Council of the North Texas Area (IU C ), New England Library In­ formation Network (N ELIN ET), Ohio College Library Center (OCLC), Pennsylvania Area Library Network (PALINET), Pittsburgh Re­ gional Library Center, Inc. (PRLC), South­ eastern Library Network (SOLINET), and the State University of New York (SUNY). Membership is open to organized regional library groups, library consortia, and library networks which promulgate, participate in, and actively support the development of an inte­ grated computerized library network for the purpose of sharing human, technological, and bibliographic resources in either the public or not-for-profit sectors. Such groups shall be com­ posed of two or more formally organized but administratively independent library agencies. Other officers in the new organization are: vice-chairperson—Charles Stevens, SOLINET; secretary—John W. Aubry, FAUL; and treasur­ er—Anthony A. Martin, PRLC. Computerized library networks wishing additional information concerning CCLN may send their inquiries to Mr. Ronald F. Miller, Chairperson, CCLN, c/o New England Board of Higher Education, 40 Grove St., Wellesley, MA 02181. • Nominations for the 1975 Robert B. Downs Award for an outstanding contribution to intellectual freedom in libraries are now be­ ing accepted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. The award was established in 1968 to honor Downs, now dean emeritus of library adminis­ tration at Illinois, on the occasion of his twenty- fifth anniversary with the university. The $500 award will be presented by the UIUC library school alumni during the fall of 1975. Herbert Goldhor, director of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Science, said the award may go to a library board member, a nonprofessional staff member, a professional li­ brarian, a government official, or anyone who has worked to further intellectual freedom and the cause of truth in any type of library. Though preference will be given to nominees in the U.S., candidates from other countries Call for Papers The November 1975 issue of San Jose Studies will focus on the life and career of John Steinbeck. The editors will wel­ come manuscripts from all areas of Stein­ beck research—including the literary, biographical, bibliographical, sociologi­ cal, and scientific. Manuscripts should be sent to The Editor, San Jose Studies, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, by May 15, 1975. 13 will be considered, Goldhor said. The faculty of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence will select the winner or may decide no one qualifies. Letters of nomination will be considered from any source from now until April 15, 1975, and should be sent to Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illi­ nois, Urbana, IL 61801. • American National Standards Com­ mittee Z39 is pleased to announce the recent organization of a new subcommittee to prepare an American National Standard for Microform Publishing Statistics. Subcommittee 37 on Mi­ croform Publishing Statistics was formed on the recommendation of the Z39 Subcommittee on Book Publishing Statistics and will be chaired by Mr. Robert Frase, consultant, and Mr. Rob­ ert Sullivan, chief, Order Division, Library of Congress. The organization of this work under the auspices of Z39 was endorsed by the Na­ tional Microfilm Association and the Informa­ tion Industry Association, the two principal as­ sociations in the microform publishing field. Subcommittee members were selected to rep­ resent a wide variety of interests relating to this project; those who have agreed to serve as members are James Adler, Congressional Infor­ mation Service; Hubbard Ballou, Columbia University Libraries; Milton Mandel, Research Publications; Alan M. Meckler, Microform Re­ view; Stevens Rice, University Microfilms; Frank L. Schick, National Center for Educa­ tional Statistics; and Rita Tatis, National Micro­ film Association. Further information on the activities and progress of this subcommittee can be obtained from the subcommittee chairmen—Mr. Robert Frase, 1414 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20037; (202) 293-5960, and Mr. Robert Sulli­ van, Chief, Order Division, Library of Con­ gress, Washington, DC 20540; (202) 426- 5361. • The Council on Library Resources has announced that it is seeking candidates—or nominations of appropriate candidates—for up to five mid-career librarians of outstanding leadership potential to participate in its Aca­ demic Library Management Intern Program during the academic year 1975-76. Commenced a year ago to assist in the devel­ opment of managers for the nation’s large re­ search and academic libraries, the CLR pro­ gram enables successful candidates to spend a full academic year working closely with the di­ rector and top administrative staff of one of the country’s great academic libraries. (In 1974-75 the libraries are at the universities of Michigan, Tennessee, and California (Los Angeles), and Columbia and Princeton universities.) An essential acquisition for all education collections SPECIAL REPORTS ON EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS Office of Special Inquiries and Reports London, 1896-1914, 28 volumes C lothbound s e t: $1,250.00/£543.50 Newly available in reprint, this major educational study is an essential source for students, teachers, scholars and researchers in education and related fields. Examined in depth are the materials and processes of education in more than thirty countries and re­ gions around the world, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Hol­ land and Russia. Both general and specific topics are covered, many of which bear sociological as well as educational relevance. A primary document in the history of education, these reports contain information avail­ able nowhere else. For complete list of contents, please write for our detailed brochure. T h e m issing Persons Bureau. Is it McDonald or McDonnell who’s the physicist at Oxford? Dr. Arnold is with the Wistar Institute, but where’s that? Is there anyone working nearby who might want to participate in our next seminar? How can I get in touch with Prof. Mayhew? The next time someone asks you to track down the correct name or whereabouts of a scientist or an academic, industrial, or government organiza­ tion, you can find the information quickly and easily w ith whatever small clue yo u ’ve got. IF you go to the missing persons bureau—/S i’s Who Is Publishing in Science® (WIPIS), the in­ ternational directory o f publishing scientists. WIPIS quickly gives you answers to your “ w ho” and “ where” questions because we’ve designed it specifically for that purpose. First, we made Who Is Publishing in Science comprehensive. Each WIPIS Annual includes the names and addresses of authors whose arti­ cles appeared in the w orld’s most im portant sci­ entific journals during a specified year. (The 1974 WIPIS Annual, for instance, covers every issue of almost 4,500 journals published in 1973 to give you the addresses of 270,841 scientists and over 36,000 organizations in 159 countries.) Then we made it easy for you to find precisely what you’re looking for by indexing WIPIS 3 ways: by author name, by organization name, and by geographic area. That’s w hy almost any clue will lead to the answer you’re after. W ith WIPIS in your reference section, you’ll find it extra easy to • Get authors’ addresses for reprint requests • Determine what scientific and technical or­ ganizations are located in a specified area • See whether an author published during a given year • Verify the spelling o f authors’ names • Determine what organization an author is as­ sociated with • Help researchers locate colleagues • Contact speakers and participants for semi­ nars, symposia, etc. • Differentiate between authors with similar names Who Is Publishing in Science gets you the answers to some of the toughest day-to- day question s a librarian encounters. Quickly. Efficiently. Bring the missing persons bureau to your library. Just use the coupon below. 15 The individual programs of the interns are designed by the host institutions to expose the interns to the ways a director of a large aca­ demic library deals with the array of problems, long term and short term, that must be faced daily. The internship covers a full year, with ten months spent at the host institution and one month spent in preparation of a report to the council. The remaining month is considered an­ nual leave. Interns will receive the normal basic salary and benefits (up to $20,000) paid by their employer during the academic year 1974- 75. Applicants for the internships must be li­ brarians with at least five years of library expe­ rience at a professional level, under forty-five years of age, and citizens of the United States or Canada or with resident status in either country. “They should be individuals who have demonstrated the qualities of intellect, person­ ality, and character required for leading posi­ tions in academic librarianship,” the official CLR announcement states. Interested librarians may receive application forms by writing to Management Intern Com­ mittee, Council on Library Resources, One Du­ pont Circle, Washington, DC 20036. The com­ mittee will welcome nominations of appropriate candidates for the awards. Completed applica­ tions must be postmarked no later than Feb­ ruary 1, 1975. The internships will begin in September 1975. The names of the successful candidates will be announced in April 1975. Currently serving as the CLR program’s first academic library management interns are Bar­ bara Brown, Washington and Lee University, at UCLA; Ralph Edwards, Western Michigan University, at the University of Michigan; Judy Fair, Urban Institute Library (Washington, D .C .) at Princeton- Thomas Michalak, Indiana University, at Columbia University; and Bar­ bara von Wahlde, University of West Florida, at the University of Tennessee. • Thomas F. O’Connell, director of li­ braries at York University, Downsview, Ontario, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Law honoris causa by Bishop’s University of Lennoxville, Quebec. • Practitioner materials from the field— schools, learning resource centers, libraries, and other places where education is happening— are being actively sought by the ERIC Clear­ inghouse on Information Resources, a part of the Educational Resource Information Cen­ ter (ER IC ). The focus on practitioner-originated materi­ als from teachers, administrators, librarians, and others working directly in education is re­ flected in the change, beginning in January 1975, of the title of ERIC’s main catalog from Research in Education to Resources in Educa­ tion. Although the national ERIC system was set up in the mid-sixties by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare mainly to dis­ seminate research-related materials, its purpose has shifted over the years to include and fea­ ture practical publications—“how to do it’’ pa­ pers, speeches, conference proceedings, and re­ ports of classroom activities. As part of this shift in purpose, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, locat­ ed in the Stanford Center for Research and De­ velopment in Teaching, School of Education, Stanford University, is increasing its requests for practitioner-produced materials in the fol­ lowing areas: print and nonprint learning re­ sources, instructional films, learning resource centers, educational television, programed learning, library technology, computers, simu­ lation and gaming, microforms, instructional materials centers, radio, communications satel­ lites, information sciences, audio and video re­ cording, multimedia, education and training of library personnel, systems approaches to teach­ ing, instructional development, and the opera­ tions of school and university libraries. People active in these fields are asked to sub­ mit two legible copies of materials they have produced. The copies may be typeset, type­ written, Xeroxed, or mimeographed, provided that they are easily readable. ERIC makes available microfiched copies of the documents, so they must be printed with clean type in sharp contrast to the background. Dittos will not reproduce. Abstracts of the documents accepted by the clearinghouse are printed in Resources in Edu­ cation (RIE). Readers of this monthly catalog are then able to purchase microfiched or Xer­ oxed copies of the total document from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. It is important that you give ERIC the right to re­ produce your materials so they can be made available to others. If you do not wish to grant a copyright release, then ERIC will still an­ nounce the availability of the document from its original source. For more information about ERIC write The ERIC Clearinghouse, Stanford Center for Re­ search and Development in Teaching, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. • University of Arizona professor in resi­ dence Lawrence Clark Powell has won a Border Regional Library Association award for his most recent book, Southwest Classics. A col­ lection of essays on the literature and authors of the arid lands, Southwest Classics was cited by the association as “the outstanding reference 16 book on the Southwest for 1974.” A former dean and professor of the University of Cali­ fornia at Los Angeles School of Library Sci­ ence, Powell has lived in Tucson since 1971. He is author of nearly thirty books and is a two-time recipient of Guggenheim fellowships. Powell will write the Arizona volume of the Bicentennial State Histories series, the States and the Nation, which will be published by the American Association for State and Local His­ tory in honor of the nation’s 200th birthday. • A time-line for the development of the National Program for Library and Information Services and a resolution encouraging the ex­ tension of current categorical aid until a nation­ al program is enacted into law was the essence of a statement issued by the National Com­ mission on Libraries and Information Sci­ ence after their September meeting in Denver, Colorado. The time-line called for the produc­ tion of a third and final draft of the national program document in the early spring of 1975. This would be followed by official adoption of the document by NCLIS and its final publica­ tion. A plan of research, implementation, and leg­ islative action has been projected over the next two years. This activity would result in the in­ troduction of new legislation in 1977. The com­ mission went on record simultaneously for the extension of current categorical library pro­ grams until such time as the proposed new na­ tional program is implemented. The resolution cites LSCA, HEA, and ESEA, and strongly urges th at the Library Partnership Act be amended and adopted based on the present philosophy and language of LSCA Title III. For further information please contact RTSD Seeks Update The Technical Services Costs Commit­ tee of the Resources and Technical Ser­ vices Division of ALA is seeking to up­ date the bibliography by Mary Tesovnik and Florence DeHart, “Unpublished Studies of Technical Service Time and Costs: A Selected Bibliography,” which was published in Library Resources ir Technical Services 14:56-67 (W inter 1970). Citations an d /o r copies of such reports are requested to be sent to Mar­ tha W. West, Associate Professor, D e­ partment of Librarianship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192. NCLIS, 1717 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 382-6595. P U B L I C A T I O N S • G. K. Hall & Co. has arranged with the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange (SSIE ) of the Smithsonian Institution, W ash­ ington, D.C., to fulfill the research community’s need for rapid access to on-going scientific re­ search: a comprehensive, up-to-date informa­ tion service providing a one-stop reference source on current research in twelve major fields. Since 1949 SSIE has been maintaining a data base of research in progress and recently com­ pleted, which was available to the scientific community only through fee-paid computer searches. Now G. K. Hall will provide access to the over 100,000 records of on-going re­ search received by SSIE each year in a continu­ ing updated service. This revolutionary new program is called SATRA (Science and Tech­ nology Research Abstracts). SATRA will repro­ duce the detailed reports of current scientific research, with summaries and indexes, on com­ puter output microfiche. The comprehensive in­ formation will go directly from the SSIE com­ puter data base to microfiche to the SATRA subscriber on a regular quarterly basis. A complete descriptive brochure of the SATRA program and sample fiche in the area desired are available upon request from Mary Ciosmak, G. K. Hall & Co., 70 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 02111; (617) 423-3990. • The University in Society, a major two- volume effort which explores the relationship between formal education and other social forces through the ages, is being published by Princeton University Press and is edited by Lawrence Stone, Dodge Professor of History and director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton. The first volume is concerned with Oxford, Cambridge, and the social implications of the college system from the fourteenth to early nineteenth centuries; the second, w ith univer­ sities in Europe, Scotland, and the United States, dealing with the period from the six­ teenth century to pre-W orld W ar I. Stone con­ tributed one of the six essays in volume one. Seven other essays comprise volume two. All the contributing scholars, from this country and abroad, were associated with the Davis Center at Princeton from 1969 to 1971 during a series of seminars on the subject of the university in society. To ascertain the responses of the universities to such broad social changes as the Renais­ sance, the Reformation, and the Industrial Rev­ 17 olution, the authors ask such questions as: Who were the students and how many were there? How did they get to the university and why did they come? How did they spend their time and what did they learn? W hat jobs did they fill and how did what they learned help them in later life? How have faculty members viewed their roles over the years? How did their professors relate to the patronage system of their societies? Stone’s current work on the university in so­ ciety has been supported, in part, by grants of $57,492 from the U.S. Office of Education and $24,000 from the National Science Foundation. • A twelve-page Metric Editorial Guide is now available from the American National Metric Council. The booklet, prepared by ANMC’s Metric Practice Committee, provides complete information on the basic grammatical rules of the metric system and is designed as a convenient reference guide for frequent use, especially for writers, artists, illustrators, secre­ taries, and others heavily involved in metric usage. It is intended as a set of recommenda­ tions by the committee rather than as an Amer­ ican National Standard. The publication includes a listing of the most commonly used units of the SI (international) metric system, plus their symbols and accept­ able alternates. Also listed are all SI unit pre­ fixes, their symbols, multiplication factors, and a pronunciation guide. The correct usage in writing metric quanti­ ties is provided regarding uppercase and lower­ case letters, plurals, the period, the decimal point, grouping of numbers, spacing, squaring and cubing, compound units, etc. Practical typewriting recommendations are given regard­ ing the use of superscripts and special charac­ ters, as well as possible typewriter modifica­ tions. Guides may be purchased from the American National Metric Council, 1625 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 501, Washington, DC 20036. The American National Metric Council is a private sector, nonprofit body whose primary aim is to serve as a center to coordinate metric activities for industry and commerce. Prices for ANMC subscribers are $1.00 for single copies; $0.50 for 10 or more copies; and $0.35 for 100 or more copies. Prices for non­ subscribers are $1.50 for single copies; $0.75 for 10 or more copies; and $0.50 for 100 or more copies. • The Dewey Decimal Classification system that is used by librarians in 123 countries to ar­ range books and other materials was introduced by Forest Press this month in its first French edition. Librarians in Canada and France trans­ lated the entire eighteenth edition of the DDC from English into French for the new two-vol­ ume, 2,985-page edition. The new French edition is of major impor­ tance to libraries in the countries whose popu­ lations include the world’s 200 million French- speaking people. The book is distributed in France and Africa by Cercle de la Librairie, a publishers’ association with headquarters in Paris, and in the Western Hemisphere and Asia by Forest Press, Albany, New York. • The Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies of the Association of Research Li­ braries has issued Volume 2, Number 2, of the ARL Management Supplement. Entitled The Delivery of Computer-Based Bibliographic Search Services by Academic and Research Li­ braries, it discusses the major organizational, staffing, and economic issues facing libraries of­ fering both off-line and on-line search services. It is based on a survey of the major off-line information processing centers and a number of libraries utilizing national on-line systems. The survey was accomplished under a National Science Foundation grant to the Northeast Academic Science Information Center (NASIC) and was carried out by a survey team of staff from NASIC, ARL’s Office of University Li­ brary Management Studies, and the Massachu­ setts Institute of Technology’s Electronics Sys­ tems Laboratory. Requests for copies of the Supplement should be sent to the Office of University Li­ brary Mafiagement Studies, Association of Re­ search Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each Supplement is $2.00 prepaid. • The British Library Lending Division has published a new booklet which lists English- language abstracting and indexing publications under subject keywords. The Keyword Index of Guides to the Serial Literature has been pro­ duced to meet the needs of research workers, librarians, and information officers who wish to know which current English-language guides to the literature are available in their fields. All of the publications listed are available from Boston Spa on interlibrary loan. On its formation in July 1973 the Lending Division acquired the stocks and services of both the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the National Central Li­ brary, so that the Keyword Index has a com­ plete coverage of technology, science and social sciences, and the humanities. The booklet, which replaces a former NLLST publication (KW IC Index to English Language Abstract­ ing and Indexing Publications Currently Being Received by the National Lending Library), is available for $2.35 post free from Publications, e Combined Indexes Library of Congress Classification S chedu First Edition 1974 For Y ears.. library authorities have recognized and encouraged the growing use of Congress Classification system in various types and sizes of libraries. Also for Years .. they have expressed the need for combined indexes linking all classification schedules— indexes which would bring together all the terms that relate to ev PERSON, PLACE or SUBJECT in the system. HERE THEY ARE! ORDER YOUR SETS TODAY AT THESE PRE-PUBLICATION PRICES OR SEND FOR FREE U.S. Historical Documents Institute, Incorporated 1647 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 s ul 3 3 7 B the Now for the first time catalogers, reference librarians and researchers need look in only one place for LC class numbers and still be confident that they cov­ ered all aspects of every subject cited in the sched­ ules. In Reference Work e s The acquisition of these new Combined Indexes w ill enhance the accessibility— and hpnce the overall reference value— of all types of library collections in which the LC Classification system is being used or contemplated. The single-alphabet arrangement of the personal name indexes brings together in one place all numbers assigned to persons prominent in several fields, as well as to authors who have f the Library written in more than one language. Entries show class numbers with the proper form of each name as well as cross references and pseudonyms. In the case of geographical names, the bringing together of class numbers fo r all the various term s in the system which 1 separate m ight apply to any given country or area, marks a m ajor refer­ence achievement in itself. Meanwhile, the specificity of the hundreds of thousands of key­ words sorted alphabetically in the general Subject Keyword Index offers researchers a means of identifying subject-oriented classes with in-depth accuracy not previously possible. The “ classified” indexes to authors and other persons w ill also prove to be m ajor reference tools, as they w ill bring together the numbers of individuals in various categories and time-periods fo r use in various types of comparative studies. In Cataloging The personal name indexes w ill be invaluable as the first sources to consult when cataloging a literary work or biography. In the larger libraries they w ill replace many lengthy searches in the National Union Catalog. In smaller libraries w ithout access to the NUC, the combined indexes w ill enable catalogers to find and use correct classifications immediately, rather than having to contact other libraries or resort to creating their own class numbers. The massive single-alphabet Keyword Subject Index w ill also prove to be a m ajor cataloging tool for both large and small libraries. In the larger systems where catalogers are specialists and hence fam iliar with their assigned portions of the schedules, the m ajor advantages of the combined index set lie in its con­ venient one-step form at and the added dimension of its in-depth keyboard subject indexing. For new catalogers or lone cate- logers in small libraries, fo r whom identifying correct schedules is a time-consuming problem in itself, the combined indexes offer an immediate additional advantage. For about 10% of the an­ nual salary of one good cat­ COST aloged a library can save EFFECTIVE? up to 25% of the search ROCHURE time of its entire catalog­ ing operation — and repeat that savings year after year. 20 The British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, W. Yorkshire LS 23 7BQ. • A new book on library staffing that offers a rationale and a framework for making jobs functional to library goals has been co-authored by Dr. Robert E. Booth, chairman of Library Science Education at Wayne State University. The book, Personnel Utilization in Libraries: A Systems Approach, emphasizes the defining of employee skills and goal setting at every job level, which can, in the long run, create a set­ ting for democratic staff management. Dr. Booth, with co-author Myrl Ricking, outlines library activities as a series of interrelated tasks, all oriented toward specific goals. In so doing, the authors are able to suggest parameters for evaluating the effectiveness of the resulting staff system in four areas— assessment of needs, de­ cision making, output, and responsiveness. Published in July by the American Library Association in cooperation with the Illinois State Library, the work draws from the library skills classification used by the U.S. Depart­ ment of Labor, the library functions identified by the Illinois Library Task Analysis Project (IL T A P), and the 1970 ALA policy statement (Library Education and Management). Accord­ ing to ALA, the publication will be helpful to library administrators in making more effective and coordinated use of their personnel, as well as to staff people themselves in determining the activities for which their skills are best suited. • An engrossing study of Edgar Allan Poe as a language maker and coiner of words by the noted Poe scholar Burton R. Pollin has just been published by the Enoch Pratt Free Li­ brary in cooperation with the Poe Society of Baltimore and the University of Baltimore Li­ brary. The eighty-six-page book, Poe, Creator of Words, opens up a field of study which has been virtually uncharted. Dr. Pollin’s careful analysis is fully documented with detailed glos­ saries of single words, compound words, and proper names invented by Poe, a list of over nine hundred words which, together with the introduction, is a substantial contribution to Poe scholarship. Copies of Poe, Creator of Words are avail­ able now from Publications, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201. They may also be ordered from the Poe Society of Baltimore and the Library of the University of Baltimore for $5.00. • The University of Houston has announced the publication of the newly revised and en­ larged edition of Mexican Americans, A Select­ ed Bibliography. The new edition has 158 pages, making it twice the length of the previ­ ous one, issued in 1972. Orders should be sent to the Director’s Office, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004. The cost is $1.50 to stu­ dents and $4.00 to others. • King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl­ vania, has recently issued a revised edition of the Catalogue of the Edward Welles, Jr. Col­ lection of Paintings by Artists in Wyoming Val­ ley in the D. Leonard Corgan Library, King’s College. The catalog lists 146 paintings by Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, artists donated to King’s College by art collector Edward Welles, Jr., in 1970. In addition to a description of the paintings, the catalog includes Dr. George Gates Raddin’s Painting in Wyoming Valley, 1808-1957, a series of seventeen his­ torical articles which are fully indexed. Com­ plimentary copies will be sent to all those who had purchased the original edition. Copies are available for $4.00 from Judith Tierney, Special Collections Librarian, D. Leonard Corgan Li­ brary, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. • The Library and Information Center of the Asian Institute of Technology has published Planning Theory Abstracts, an evaluative and annotated list of readings, and Guide to the Literature on Structural Engineering and Ma­ terials in the A IT Library in its series of refer­ ence guides. These can be purchased for $1.50 each (including postage) from The Reference Division, The library, Asian Institute of Tech­ nology, P.O. Box 2754, Bangkok, Thailand. • The University of Sydney Library wishes to announce the publication of The Tomkeieff Collection: A Short-Title Listing of the Geologi­ cal Library of the Late Professor S. I. Tom­ keieff, with Two Memoirs of his Life and Works. The Tomkeieff Collection, the personal li­ brary of the late S. I. Tomkeieff, professor of petrology at the University of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, was acquired by the University of Syd­ ney Library after his death in 1968. It is pri­ marily a working collection in geology, miner­ alogy, and petrology, assembled over more than half a century, and is particularly noteworthy for its historical material and material in the Russian language, a large proportion of which is now virtually unobtainable. This publication is a short-title list of the collection, covering some one thousand items. There is also a bibliography of professor Tom- keieff’s own publications. Copies are available at $3.98 and may be ordered from Associate Librarian (Reader Services), University of Syd­ ney Library, Sydney, N.S.W. 2006. Australia. ■ ■