ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 131 News From the Sections J U N I O R C O L L E G E L IB R A R IE S S E C T IO N The ACRL Junior College Library Section of the American Library Association will sponsor a preconference institute on “Developing Ser­ vices for the Total Community,” Friday and Saturday, June 23 and June 24, to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Library Association. The institute will take place at the Illini Union of the University of Illinois in Cham­ paign. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Marie Y. Martin, Director, Community College Edu­ cation, U.S. Office of Education. Other speakers will be Dr. Ervan Harlacher, President of Brookdale Community College, Mrs. Mildred Bastian, Trustee of the St. Louis Jr. College District, and Dr. Max Raines of Michigan State University, who will present the results of a survey he is taking on attitudes and services which exist in regard to community services. In addition to the above speakers, seminars on the following aspects of library service to the community will be held: College Level Examination Program, public and community college library cooperation, identifying com­ munity needs, and serving minority needs. Housing, meals, and registration will be in­ cluded in the total cost of the institute which will be $65.00 per person for double occupancy and $75.00 for single. Registration will be limited to 250. For further information contact the ACRL Office of the American Library As­ sociation, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. “SHOW AND TELL,” a media clinic on in­ struction in library use, will take place Wednes­ day night, June 28, 8:30-10:30 and Thursday morning, 8:30-11:30, June 29. Room to be announced in ALA Conference Program. Spon­ sored by the ALA Committee on Instruction in the Use of Libraries, and the Junior Col­ lege Libraries Section of ACRL. We’ve talked about goals and how to im­ prove instruction in use of libraries. We’re no longer talking, but going all the way with media this year. Explore techniques for com­ municating information with us this summer. Can you spare only twenty minutes for some practical help? We’ll have continuous showing of tapes, slides, etc., Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Computer demonstrations, video taping discussions. Compare, evaluate, stay as long as you like. Seek advice from our consultants, a rare opportunity. Ask about costs, choice of format, point of use vs large group. Get “hands on” experience with the equipment and materials. Catalogs with complete infor­ mation to all participants. Personnel A P P O I N T M E N T S M bs. L ouise G, Anderson is the new as­ sistant reference librarian for the Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Mrs. Alice F. Bahr is now part of the Lehigh University libraries in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as assistant reference librarian. Mrs. Joan M. Bechtel is the new assistant cataloger for Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn­ sylvania. Barbara Begg has accepted the appointment as head of the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California, San Diego. Mrs. Jewel D. Berry is joining the library staff at Rutgers College of South Jersey in Camden, New Jersey as their reference li­ brarian. Donna Borschadt has been appointed music reference librarian in the Architecture and Fine Arts library, University of Florida, Gaines­ ville. Mrs. E velyn Geer Clement was recently appointed associate professor and chairman of the department of library service at Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee. John Dana has joined the Oklahoma State University library staff, Stillwater, as assistant documents cataloger. Victoria T. Deang recently joined the library staff at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey, as their cataloger. David D el Dotto recently received his ap­ pointment as circulation—a.v. librarian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. E dmond E. Dubbs has assumed the duties 132 of public services librarian at the Delaware County Community College, Concordville, Penn­ sylvania. Mary Hilda E bert is now serving as reference librarian at St. Peter’s College, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Rebecca Gretchen E ichholtz has been appointed assistant reference librarian at Rhode Island College, Providence. Arthur Daniel Evans is now reference li­ brarian at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsyl­ vania. Mrs. Veda K. F aler has assumed the po­ sition of reference librarian at Charles Dana Medical Library University of Vermont, Burling­ ton. Ronald F ark has joined the staff at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle library, as reserve book librarian, Chicago, Illinois. Judith F eldman was appointed subject specialist at Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Mrs. Mary F leming is reference librarian at the School of Medicine, University of Penn­ sylvania, Philadelphia. Judith May F oulkes has been named as­ sistant librarian at York College of Pennsylvania. Janet Ingram F rankenfield is the newly appointed audiovisual librarian at Colby Col­ lege, Waterville, Maine. Mrs. Janet Friedländer was appointed to fill the new position of environmental literature specialist, Sears Library, Case W estern Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Mary A. Gerber received appointment as cataloger-instructor, Miami University, Ox­ ford, Ohio. Gail Ruth Gilbert is the newly appointed fine arts librarian of the University of Louis­ ville, Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs. Susan Gordon has been named as­ sistant librarian, St. Joseph’s College, Phila­ delphia, Pennsylvania. Ida Green is on the staff as readers service librarian at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Max B. Hamon is the newly appointed as­ sistant librarian, physical sciences and engineer­ ing division of the Oklahoma State University library, Stillwater. E dward G. H ollman is now head of the social sciences division of the Oklahoma State University library, Stillwater. Nancy Sue H opkins has assumed the duties of a serials librarian at the University of Mary­ land, Baltimore County, Baltimore. Margaret Huang has received her appoint­ ment to the serials staff at the University of Washington libraries, Seattle. Cynthia Jackson has assumed the position You know that Erich Segal wrote Love Story. But how much do you know about his scholarly activities? And what about Prof. Adedeji of Ife University, Nigeria —or Dean Bertolino of the Faculty of Science of the University of Belgrade— or economist Andre Frank of the University of Chile? Announcing A NEW AND INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE WORK FOR ALL LIBRARIES THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS DIRECTORY • Bio-Bibliographical Data on Scholars, Scientists, Researchers in All Fields Throughout the Free World • Includes Citations to Reviews of Their Publications, Thus Serving as an Index of Reviews • Keyed to Other Biographical Reference Sources, Thereby Providing an Index to Numerous Directories of Contemporary Notables $35 to June 15 $38.50 after June 15 Find out why your public, university, junior or senior college, departmental or special library needs this work. Write for brochure: INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY PUBLISHERS 1, Rue de Palerme, 67 Strasbourg, France 2045 Half Day Road, Deerfield, Illinois 60015 U.S.A. 133 The name of Frances Neel Cheney is a distinguished one in contemporary American librarianship. Member of the Reference and Subscription Books Review Committee of A LA , writer of a monthly column on current reference books for Wilson Library Bulletin, professor at The Peabody School of Library Science, she is supremely well qualified to write this book. F U N D A M E N T A L REFERENCE SOURCES FRANCES NEEL CHENEY FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE SOURCES provides an intro­ duction to selected sources of bibliographical, biographical, linguis­ tic, statistical, and geographical information, and offers detailed suggestions for effective use of these sources in selection, acquisition, and cataloging of library collections. As a textbook in library school courses, or in day-to-day use by librarians, FUNDAMENTAL REFERENCE SOURCES is an in­ dispensable handbook, in the tradition of Shores’ Basic Reference Sources—now out of print—and of W inchell’s Guide to Reference Books. ISBN 0-8389-0081-X (1971) Ş8.50 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 East H uron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 134 of staff librarian at the Transportation Library, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Robert K. Johnson, university librarian, University of Arizona, Tucson, has announced his decision to transfer from library adminis­ tration to library teaching. Nath Arvind Kalia has been appointed science reference librarian for Rutgers Uni­ versity, Dana Library, Newark, New Jersey. W illiam Robert Kearney has assumed the position of systems analyst II at the University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, Philadelphia. James G. Kennison is the new circulation coordinator, Library East, University of Florida libraries. Mary Alice King has been appointed to the position of cataloger at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Clara Marie Kirner was appointed cata­ loger at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey. Barbara Kornstein received an appoint­ ment as librarian I in the Moffitt Undergradu­ ate Library, University of California, Berkeley. Mrs. Danielle Langstaffe has joined the staff as librarian I at the University of Penn­ sylvania, Annenberg School of Communication, Philadelphia. Rev. David C. McClain is assistant librarian at Baptist Bible College, Clarks Summit, Penn­ sylvania. Charles Anthony McFadden is the new acquisition librarian at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Carol G. Maloney has been named part-time assistant librarian and part-time ref­ erence assistant for Temple University, Ambler Campus, Ambler, Pennsylvania, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, respec­ tively. Carolyn A. Miller is the new reference librarian for Pennsylvania State University, Capitol Campus library, Middletown. E laine Miller is now reference librarian in the Latin-American Area, University of Florida libraries, Gainesville. Janet Louise Miller is the newly appointed cataloger for the University of Pennsylvania, Lippincott Library, Philadelphia. George Edward Missonis has assumed the position of assistant librarian for Reading Area Community College, Reading, Pennsylvania. Daniel T. Muir has been named curator of pictorial collections of the Eleutherian Mills Historical library, Wilmington, Delaware. Mrs. Rena N. Opalek is the newly appoint­ ed librarian for Mordecai M. Kaplan Library, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania. Joe Ortiz is now part of the acquisition staff for the University of Washington libraries, Seattle. Barbara J. Randle is now on the staff of the Freiberger Library at Case Western Re­ serve University, Cleveland, as a reference li­ brarian. Andrew Perry Redifer received appoint­ ment as catalog editor for Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Mrs. Jutta R. Reed is the new associate humanities librarian for the MIT libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mary Lynn Ritzenhaler has been ap­ pointed manuscript cataloger at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle library. Susan Karen Roumm has assumed the duties of assistant circulation librarian for the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Mrs. Sandra P. Sadow moved into the position of reference librarian of Rutgers Col­ lege of South Jersey School of Law, Camden, New Jersey. Charles Thomas Schmidt has been ap­ pointed systems analyst at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marsha Selmer has accepted the position of map librarian at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle library. Charles Clinton Sisson is now research librarian at the University of Virginia, Char­ lottesville. Mrs. Jeanne G. Sohn has assumed the po­ sition of bibliographer at Temple University, Paley Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Marcia Chung-Kit Sze was appointed cata­ loger at George Washington University, Wash­ ington, D.C. Mrs. Betsy Robb Tabas has joined the staff of Temple University, Paley Library, Phila­ delphia, Pennsylvania, as cataloger. Robert Stuart Tannehill is library man­ ager, Chemical Abstracts Service, Ohio State University, Columbus. Mrs. Ruth Liepmann Tighe has assumed the duties of assistant director for field oper­ ations for the New England Library Infor­ mation Network, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eugenia Russ Truesdell is the new curriculum laboratory librarian at West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Sarah Jean W eaver is the newly appointed assistant librarian for Harcum Junior College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. John Grant Williamson has assumed the position of acquisition librarian at the University of Delaware, Newark. 135 AWARDS. HONORS AND PRIZES. 1972 Edition. Edited by Paul Wasserman. This revised, second edition contains over 1,000 additional awards. Arranged by names of donors, the entries for the 3,200 awards provide full descriptions including information on eligibility. With an index of awards by formal and popular names, and cross-references from earlier or alternate forms, plus an index by field of endeavor. (In Print) $24.00. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES AND RELATED WORKS. SUPPLEMENT. Edited by Robert B. Slocum. Like the unique basic volume, this 1972 Supplement is divided into sections on Universal Biography, National or Area Biography, and Biography by Vocation. The Supplement provides bibliographical details and anno­ tations for about 3,500 items. (The base volume covers 4,829 collections of biographical information. In Print. $25.00.) With author, title, and subject indexes. (In Print) $25.00. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY C R ITIC IS M . Vol­ ume 1. Devoted entirely to recent criticism and evalua­ tions of both new and established modern authors, this new series complements Gale's Contemporary Authors series. Each CLC entry includes lengthy excerpts from one to a dozen or more appraisals of an important author's works, taken from both major and minor review­ ing media and from critical books. (Ready May) $25.00. DRAMATIC C R ITIC IS M INDEX: A Bibliography o f Commentaries on Playwrights from Ibsen to the Avant- Garde. Edited by Paul F. Breed and Florence M. Snider- man. Arranged alphabetically by playwright, this wide- ranging compilation presents 12,000 citations of com­ mentaries, each of which treats an individual play or a playwright's entire canon. With play title and critic name indexes. (In Print) $20.00. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASSOCIATIONS. 7th Edition. 1972. Three Volumes: Volume 1. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition contains 1,800 new entries, for a total of 17,000. Included are national nonprofit membership organizations and selected international or local groups of special interest. Each entry covers 17 vital items of information. With 43,750-item keyw ord/ alphabetical index. (Ready A p ril) $38.50. • Volume 2, Geographic-Executive Index. This two-part index pro­ vides tw o additional approaches to organizations listed in Volume 1. (Ready A p ril) $25.00. • Volume 3. New Associations and Projects. Issued quarterly from March, 1972 to December, 1973, these supplements cover new organizations and supply the same kinds of details as entries in Volume 1. With a cumulative index in each issue. $48.00. NEW TITLES AND NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD REFERENCE WORKS FR O M G ALE R E S E A R C H CO. BOOK TOWER • DETROIT, M IC H IG A N 4 8 2 2 6 HAWTHORNE AT AUCTION 1894-1971. Compiled by C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr. The inaugural volume in the “ Authors at Auction” series, this work covers Haw­ thorne's published and unpublished writings as pre­ served in the sale catalogs of the 41 most important sales. The bulk of the text consists of facsimiles of auction catalogs, often containing important literary as well as bibliographical information; there are price annotations for all items. With illustrations and an index. (In Print) $25.00. REVERSE ACRONYMS AND IN ITIA L IS M S DIC ­ TIONARY. Arranged by the term or phrase which has been acronymized, this companion volume to Acronyms and Initiahsms Dictionary (arranged by acronym) enables researchers to determine the commoniy used abbreviated forms for 80,000 terms. (In Print) $27.50. TOP POP RECORDS—1955-1970. Compiled by Joel Whitburn. Covers about 9,800 popular single records that appeared on Billboard Magazine's weekly “ Hot 100” Charts from the first chart (November 2, 1955) through 1970. Arranged by artists' names, the entries provide date the record was first charted, highest position reached, total number of weeks on the chart, and record label and number. (In Print) $15.00. THE VICTORIAN CELEBRATION OF DEATH: The Architecture and Planning o f the 19th-Century Necropolis. By James Stevens Curl. Discusses the mean­ ings of Victorian death and burial practices and beliefs. The author gives insights into the spirit of the era in chapters on the design and architecture of cemeteries, the ways class distinctions were reflected in coffins and other ephemeral paraphernalia, the diverse purposes of such great necropoli as Kensal Green and Highgate, and other topics. With 32 illustrations and a bibliography. (Ready A pril) $7.00. V IS IT IN G CARDS OF CELEBRITIES. By F C. Schang. Selected from the extensive collection of a veteran concert manager and inveterate collector, the visiting cards reproduced in this volume are accompanied by engrossing background details and, in many cases, by memorial postage stamps, photographs or drawings of the celebrities, or other pertinent material. With a bibliography and an index. (In Print) $10.00.