ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 300 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The voluminous papers of the late Allan Nevins—some 50,000 letters, manuscripts, and other items documenting the prominent his­ torian’s long career—have been opened to schol­ ars at the Columbia University libraries. Co­ lumbia also announced it has received Dr. Nevins’ private library of more than 11,000 books. The historian, who died March 5 at the age of eighty, also bequeathed his personal diaries, kept from 1941 to 1970. The books and diaries recently arrived at Columbia from the Nevins’ home in Menlo Park, California. Dr. Nevins established the collection of his papers at Columbia in 1953 b u t stipulated that it was to be closed until after his death. All of its contents are open now except the diaries and his tape-recorded oral history memoirs, which will remain closed for another five years. The Nevins papers include letters from Pres­ idents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Other correspondents include poets Carl Sandburg and Louis Unter­ meyer, social reformers Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair, educators John Dewey and Abraham Flexner, statesmen Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden, novelists Thomas B. Costain and How­ ard Fast, senators Robert F. Kennedy and Everett M. Dirksen, and commentators H. V. Kaltenborn and Edward R. Murrow. • Drake Memorial Library of the State University of New York College at Brock­ port has on microfilm the only copy available in the U.S. of the Lord Chamberlain’s Day­ books which are registers of plays licensed for presentation in London from 1824 to 1903. The originals are in the British Museum. There are columns for the following infor­ mation: number of license, title of the stage play (b u t no author’s nam e), nature of play (comedy, drama, pantomime, etc.), number of acts, date of license, date of entry, and words and passages to be omitted in representation. There are some loose papers and other notes at random in the books such as letters to and from the Lord Chamberlain, a tally of plays read and approved, and a note on the common caution to managers about w hat is permissible to be represented on stage. • The Rare Book and Manuscript Depart­ ment of Paley Library at T em ple University has recently acquired an extensive collection of the writings of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), bishop of Salisbury. The collection, consisting of 137 titles, is valuable source material for theological and English political history of the latter seventeenth century and complements the previous holdings of the department. Bur­ net’s writings are a narration of contemporary events in which he exerted much influence: the church history of Scotland; the reigns of Charles II, James II, and William and Mary; the Popish plots of the 1670s; and scientific developments of the age. A close friend of many Whigs (including John Churchill, duke of Marlborough), Burnet wrote many anti- Catholic tracts and formulated the religious justifications for the Glorious Revolution of 1688. A list of the tracts, sermons, and books is available upon request. • The papers and correspondence of Luther Lee Bernard, a leading American sociologist, presented by his widow Dr. Jessie R. Bernard to the Pennsylvania State University librar­ ies, have been cataloged and arranged and are open for use by the scholarly community as part of the Historical Collections at Pattee Li­ brary. Dr. Ronald L. Filippelli, who is in charge of the collection, explains that it is considered to be important to th e study of American sociol­ ogy because of L. L. Bernard’s leading role in the field for many years, especially as a found­ er of the American Sociological Review. The magazine is the official journal of the American Sociological Society of which Dr. Bernard served as president in 1932. The collection reflects Dr. Bernard’s accom­ plishments as a scholar in producing sixteen books, 300 professional papers, 1,000 reviews, and over 200 articles (100 of the latter dealing with South American sociology on which he was considered a world authority). It contains manuscripts, correspondence, journals, and dia­ ries of trips, class and research notes, detailed information on the development of sociological departments at eighty-six colleges, and indi­ vidual life histories of more than 200 sociolo­ gists. Dr. Filippelli and his staff have prepared an extensive typescript index which will fa­ cilitate use of the collection. • One of the most important and extensive private collections of cryptologic material in the world has been given to the George C. Marshall Research L ibrary, Lexington, Vir­ ginia. The gift was made by the late Lieutenant Colonel William F. Friedman, who died in 1969, and Mrs. Friedman, of Washington, D.C. Colonel Friedman and his wife have been widely acclaimed in the field of cryptology since World War I. Approximately 3,000 items are in the Fried­ man Collection, now being prepared for the use of researchers in the field. These range from Colonel Friedman’s first publications in 301 302 The UNIVERSAL REFERENCE SYSTEM, a continuously updated 10-volume bibliography to Help Your Political Scientists Reduce Literature Search Time Book reviews praise the URS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, GOVERNMENT and PUBLIC POLICY SERIES. “The research library will find “For research in the purest this a useful reference tool." sense of the word, this is an LIBRARY JOURNAL admirable tool. 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More than 35,000 titles are covered in the 10-volume basic library and annual supplements. Papers. Articles. Books. And other political works. Issued by some 2400 publishers and 800 journals, domestic and foreign. With the information systematically indexed, organized, readily accessible. And continuously updated with annual supplements (about 5-6000 new items are added each year] through 1970. So the researcher will be able to quickly uncover more relevant titles - current as well as retrospective – than.would be possible by any other method. For full details on the Universal Reference System … and why it belongs on your library shelf, contact Princeton Information Technology, 32 Nassau Street, Princeton, N.J. 08540, (609) 924-2729. Princeton Inform ation Technology A DIVISION OF PLENUM P U BLISHING CORPORATION A PARTIAL LIST OF URS USERS Adelphi University University of Alaska Albion College Library American Bar Foundation University of Arizona Atlantic Intelligence Center Boston Public Library Brigham Young University Brown University Library Bucknell University California State Library Cambridge Center for Social Studies Central Michigan University Chatham College Library Chattanooga University City College of the City University of New York Coe College Colorado State College Library Columbia University University of Connecticut Cornell Law Library Dartmouth College University of Denver Emory University Enoch Pratt Free Library Fairleigh Dickinson University Fort Benning, Special Services Library Georgetown University George Washington University Law Library Harvard University Harvard University Center for Int. Affairs University of Hawaii Library Hobart College Library Hofstra University Library Indiana University Library Institute of Public Administration Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Kansas State Teachers College Kendall College Library Lafayette University Library Loyola University University of Maine Manhattan College University of Michigan University of Missouri NASA Headquarters State of New Jersey Newark Public Library Newton College of the Sacred Heart New York Public Library New York State University at Binghamton University of North Carolina University of North Dakota North Texas State University Library Northwestern University Library Occidental College Library Ohio State University Law Library University of Oklahoma Old Dominion College Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Quinnipiac College Research Analysis Corporation Rutgers University St. Ambrose College St. Bonaventure University San Francisco Public Library Shippensburg State College Skidmore College University of Southern California Library Southern Methodist Swarthmore College Library Syracuse University Library Temple University Texas Technological College University of Toledo Towson State College Trinity University Tufts University United Nations Library Webster College Wesleyan University Library University of West Florida Western Kentucky State College Williams College Library University of Wisconsin Yale University Canadian University of Alberta Canadian National Library University of Manitoba University of Toronto Library University of Western Ontario Foreign University of Auckland Australian National University American University of Beirut University of Copenhagen Danish Royal Library University of Ghana University of Guam Indian Institute of Management University of Mexico University of The Netherlands University of Oslo Congress of The Philippines University of Singapore 303 the cryptographic field in 1916 and papers allied with their assignments for the U.S. government to books in various languages, pamphlets, technical papers, periodicals, micro­ film, slides, and newspaper clippings. • The Murphy Library of W isconsin State University, La Crosse, has purchased the Paul W. Skeeters collection of science fiction, fan­ tasy, and horror literature. Among the more than 1,000 titles, ranging in date from 1764 to the mid-1960s, and mostly in first editions, are authors such as Conrad Aiken and Edith Wharton, along with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, and Tiffany Thayer. The ac­ quisition will supplement the library’s com­ plete collection of Arkham House books. The late August Derleth, well-known Wisconsin historian and author, was the founder and edi­ tor of Arkham House, the only publishing firm devoted solely to the printing of limited first editions in the field of macabre and gothic tales. F E L L O W S H I P S / S C H O L A R S H I P S • The Catholic Library Association has announced that applications are now being ac­ cepted for the 1972 Reverend Andrew L. Bou­ whuis Scholarship for graduate study in li­ brarianship. The scholarship is in the amount of $1,000 and is awarded to the person chosen by the CLA Scholarship Committee. Promise of success based on collegiate record, evidence of need for financial help, and acceptance in a graduate library school program are the criteria for awarding the scholarship. The recipient may enter any graduate library school. Appli­ cations may be obtained by writing to the Scholarship Committee, Catholic Library Asso­ ciation, 461 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041. The award will be announced at the annual convention of the association during Easter Week. The deadline for applications is February 1, 1972. G R A N T S • The James Irvine Foundation has provided a $5,000 grant for the 1972-73 academic year to the Medical Library Scholarship Foun­ dation of Los Angeles, to fund scholarships for prospective medical librarians. The Board of Directors of the Medical Library Scholar­ ship Foundation voted at its latest meeting to expend the grant through allocations of $2,500 each to the UCLA School of Library Service and the USC School of Library Science. The two graduate professional schools will award scholarships to master’s degree candidates spe­ cializing in medical librarianship. • In a step toward meeting the problem of badly deteriorating card catalogs, the New York Public Library has begun an experi­ ment to determine the feasibility of putting the present and prospective catalogs of its re­ search libraries on microfilm. The Council on Library Resources has made a $10,000 grant toward the project and is also assisting in a consultive capacity. The physical condition of the main Public Catalog of The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library has been of concern for some years. A 1965 study indicated that 2,296,­ 000 of the then eight million cards contained in the heavily used catalog were in need of replacement. Conversion of the retrospective card catalog, following rehabilitation, to m a­ chine-readable form for book publication was considered. Further investigation, supported in large part by the council, resulted in a 1968 report in which some other alternatives were considered. In the first part of the present experiment the usefulness of microfilm reproduction of a segment of the public catalog is being tested. Among the factors for consideration are: user acceptability, mechanical feasibility of the mi­ crofilm readers, and the means by which this service is to be administered by the staff. The second part of the experiment will deal with the use of microfilm in connection with pro­ duction of the authority file for an automated prospective catalog. The third phase will in­ vestigate the use of microfilm for monthly cumulative catalog supplements of the prospec­ tive catalog and will evaluate ease of access to them in this form by the staff and by the public. M E E T I N G S Nov. 7-11: The 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) will be held November 7-11, 1971, at the Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado. Jack M. McCormick (Chief, Special Man­ agement Services, National Oceanic & Atmo­ spheric Administration), General Chairman for the 1971 ASIS Conference, has announced that the theme of the conference will be “Com­ munication for Decision-Makers.” Further information on the ASIS Annual Meeting may be obtained by contacting Miss Sheryl Wormley, ASIS, 1140 Connecticut Av­ enue, N.W., Suite 804, Washington, D.C. 20036. Telephone: (202) 659-3644. Further information can be found in the September 1971 News, Meetings section. Nov. 11-13: “Directions in Education in Information Science,” a symposium cospon­ sored by the Information Science and Automa­ tion Division of the American Library Associa­ tion, the American Society for Information Sci­ 304 e n ­ l l ­ ­ e ­ e e n . ­ a f ­ ­ ­ ence, and the University of Denver Graduat School of Library Science, will be held o November 11-13, 1971, immediately follow ing the ASIS annual meeting in Denver. Curricula and curriculum development wil be the focus of the discussions, which wil bring together educators in library science, in formation science, and computer science. At tendance will be limited. The registration fe is $35.00 for the two and one-half-day sym posium. Inquiries and application should b made to Mr. Don S. Culbertson, Executiv Secretary, Information Science and Automatio Division, American Library Association, 50 E Huron St., Chicago, Illinois 60611. Nov. 15: The General Services Administra tion will offer their Ninth Archival Symposi Monday, November 15, at the University o Chicago, School of Law. The general topic will be “Research Use of Federal Court Rec ords; What, W here and How?” Topics and speakers will include “The Origin, Develop ment and Operation of th e Federal Courts Records Program of NARS,” by Mrs. Dorothy Gersack, Records Appraisal Division, NARS, Washington, D.C.; “Research Opportunities at the Region 5 Archives Branch,” by Bruce C. Harding, Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Rec ords Center, Chicago; “Locating, Selecting, and Reproducing Federal Court Records on Microfilm,” with Irwin S. Rhodes, Attorney and Legal Historian, Cincinnati; and “Research­ ing and Writing on Federal Courts in Ken­ tucky,” by Mary K. Tachau, Department of History, University of Louisville. Comments on the program and the future of legal history will be offered by Dr. Stanley Katz, University of Chicago, School of Law. For further information contact Chief, Archives Branch, Federal Record Center, GSA-NARS, 7201 S. Leamington Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60638. (Tele.: 312-353-5720) Nov. 20: The fall meeting of the Hawaii Library Association will be held Saturday, No­ vember 20, 1971, at the Leeward Community College in Pearl City, Oahu. The spring meet­ ing is scheduled to be held April 14 and 15, 1972, in Honolulu. M I S C E L L A N Y • The ACRL Committee on Appointments and Nominations is requesting names of per­ sons to be considered for appointment to ACRL committees and nomination for election to ACRL office. ACRL members should indi­ cate their own interests and suggest names of other persons for consideration. Persons serving in any capacity must be able to attend the An­ nual and Midwinter Conferences. A list of ACRL committees can be found in College & Research Libraries News (July/A ug. 1971). In addition to committee appointments for terms to begin after the 1972 ALA conference, nominees will be selected for the offices of ACRL President-elect and directors-at-large. These nominees would be selected for the spring 1973 elections. Please forward names and complete addresses by November 15, 1971, to the committee chairman, Mr. Donald C. Anthony, Associate Director of Libraries, Co­ lumbia University, 315 Butler, New York, NY 10027. • On June 25-28, 1971, a group of fourteen persons gathered in Santa Barbara, Califor­ nia to discuss some of th e problems in the area of bibliography and data retrieval in the humanities and social sciences. Although sev­ eral of the participants are members of com­ mittees, advisory boards, or editorial staffs of professional associations or journals, they did not officially represent these groups a t the meet­ ing. The first day and a half of the conference was spent discussing various problems in the area of bibliography and documentation, in­ cluding: (1 ) significant gaps in coverage; (2 ) duplication of coverage by various abstracting and bibliographic services; (3 ) the delay in providing bibliography and abstracts; (4 ) the 305 lack of communication between the organiza­ tions involved in bibliography and documenta­ tion; (5 ) the possibilities offered by automated data-retrieval systems; and (6 ) the relation­ ship between nonprofit and commercial orga­ nizations. The final portion of the meeting was con­ cerned with possible methods of dealing with the problems that had been outlined. The par­ ticipants agreed th at it is essential to get those now involved in bibliography and abstracting to coordinate their activities. Therefore, it was decided that an attem pt will be made to or­ ganize a meeting—hopefully, in 1972—that will bring together representatives of the major pro­ fessional associations, information scientists, and bibliographic and abstracting services in the humanities and social sciences. Hopefully the meeting would be sponsored by the newly es­ tablished National Commission for Libraries and Information Sciences, the American Coun­ cil of Learned Societies, or some comparable body. Roger E. Kanet, Department of Political Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66044, and Don K. Rowney, Depart­ ment of History, Bowling Green State Univer­ sity, Bowling Green, Ohio 43402, agreed to as­ sume responsibility for organizing the proposed meeting. • The Library Administration Division wishes to announce the availability through in­ terlibrary loan of the following materials from the ALA Headquarters Library: 1. Job Descriptions: Theory and Practice. 2. Personnel Manuals: How to W rite Them. 3. Performance Appraisal Forms: A Collec­ tion. • The Library Administration Division’s E c­ onomic Status, Fringe Benefits and W el­ fare Committee is seeking to identify prob­ lems related to securing complete and accurate employment information by library job appli­ cants or new employees. The term “job ad­ vertising” is defined as including ads, an­ nouncements, interviews, and related methods of providing employment facts to job appli­ cants. Public hearings will be held at the 1972 ALA Annual Conference on this topic. Forms for written testimony may be obtained from the Library Administration Division office. In­ formation provided for the “Truth in Job Ad­ vertising” hearings does not constitute a for­ mal request for assistance from the ALA Staff Committee on Mediation, Arbitration and In­ quiry. • The 71st annual meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in San Die­ go, California, June 11-15, 1972. Two general sessions for contributed papers are scheduled. No special themes have been assigned for either session except that papers should relate in some way to the focus of the conference as a whole on communication in the health sci­ ences through information handling. The aim of the contributed sessions is to give individual MLA members an opportunity to present in­ novative aspects of the work in their libraries, problems in administration, training, technical or public services which have been success­ fully solved, research they may be engaged in, or results of thought and study on the role of medical librarianship in the communication of health information. The Program Committee hopes that the pa­ pers selected will fall into natural groupings, but this is less important than the caliber and general interest of the individual papers. Oral presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes, though papers for possible publication in the Bulletin may be of whatever length is practical. Time will be allotted for discussion from the floor and, where feasible, by designated dis­ cussants. Association members are cordially invited (in fact, urged) to submit papers for considera­ tion for presentation. A letter of intent to do so and a short abstract of the paper should be sent by November 15, 1971, or earlier, to the program chairman: Louise Darling, Librarian, Biomedical Library, Center for the Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. The deadline for submission of com­ pleted papers is February 15, 1972. 307 • Following is the ALA Social Responsi­ bilities Round Table Task F orce Key Ad­ dress L ist, July 21, 1971. ACTION COUNCIL 1970- 72 Coordinator: Jackie Eubanks, Brooklyn Col­ lege Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Recording Secretary: Richard Akeroyd, Wil­ bur Cross Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CO 06268 1971- 73 Task Force Coordinator: Tyron Emerick, Director of Library Services, KCK Community Junior College, 727 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101 CLEARINGHOUSE 1970-72 Coordinator: Marian Crawford, 4240 Park- side Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Temple University) Task Force Coordinators: Alternatives in Print (7/76-): Mimi Pen­ chansky, Coordinator, Paul Klapper Library, Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367 American Indians (1/71—): Charles Townley, Coordinator, Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Chicanos (6/71-): Elizabeth Martinez Smith, Coordinator, Los Angeles County Public Li­ brary, 1550 Beverly Blvd., Montebello, CA 90640 Clearinghouse for Reference and Acquisi­ tion Information on Minorities (6/71—): Joan Neumann, Coordinator, Brooklyn Public Li­ brary, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 East Coast Conspiracy Documentation (1 /- 71-): Betty Carol Sellen, Coordinator, Brook­ lyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Gay Liberation (7/70—): Barbara Getting, Co­ ordinator, 241 So. 21st St., Philadelphia, PA 19103 Government Publications (formerly Catalog­ ing in Source/Publications): Bernadine E. Hoduski, Coordinator, 515 B N. Florence, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063 Media Centers in Free Schools ( ? ) : Ray Bar­ ber, Coordinator, University School, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 Migrant Workers (1/71–): Martin J. Zon­ ligt, Coordinator, Stanislaus Co. Free Library, 1402 Eye St., Modesto, CA 95354 Mobilizing Community Program Resources for Inter-Group Understanding (6/71–): Laurel Fischer, Coordinator, Akron Public Library, Akron, OH 44305 Prison Libraries (1/71–): Richard Hays, Co­ ordinator, Paul Pratt Library, Cohasset, MA 02025 Recruitment of Minorities (7/69-): Mrs. Ada E. Jackson, Coordinator, 400 Central Park West 4-N, New York, NY 10025 Service to Poor People (tentative name) (6/71-): Clara Alexander, Coordinator, 411 “A” St., S.E., Washington, DC 20003 Sex Media (6/71–): Gordon McShean, Co­ ordinator, Dundee Township Public Library, Dundee, IL 60118 Status of W om en in Libraries and W om en’s Liberation (1/70-): Michells Rudy, Coordinator, 1403 LeGore Lane, Manhattan, KS 66502 Student Affiliates (7/70-): Nancy Hanssen, Coordinator, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY 11205 Underground Press Syndicate Index (1 /- 71-): Joan Marshall, Coordinator, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210 • Robert W edgeworth, Jr., was named editor of Library Resources & Technical Ser­ vices, the official journal of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division, by the divi­ sion’s board at the summer conference of the American Library Association. Wedgeworth served as assistant to the editor of the journal for 1970/71. He succeeds Dr. Paul S. Dunkin who was L RTS editor from 1967-71. Wedge­ worth holds a 1959 A.B. in English literature from Wabash College; a 1961 M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois; and is currently a doctoral candidate and assistant professor a t Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Graduate School of Library Ser­ vice. • H oward S. W hite has been appointed to the position of editor/manager of Library Tech­ nology Reports, the bimonthly subscription ser­ vice of the Library Technology Program. The appointment follows the resignation of Robert J. Shaw, the editor/manager since 1968. White was formerly assistant editor of the Reports. As editor/manager, W hite will supervise the edi­ torial and fiscal policies of the Reports. • On November 22, 1970, the F romkin Memorial Collection of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library was formally opened. The collection, the theme of which is the quest for social justice in America from the end of the Civil War to the end of the New Deal, was established by the family of the late Morris Fromkin, a lawyer and businessman who was actively interested in the labor move­ ment and other social justice causes, especially during his Milwaukee years, from 1920 to 1946. Opening day ceremonies included the first annual Fromkin lecture, “The Historic Role of Constitutional Liberalism in the Quest for So­ 308 cluding agriculture and m edicine), and the cial Justice,” by former Senator Wayne Morse, and a symposium, “Third Forces in American Politics,” moderated by Professor Austin Ran­ ney of The University of Wisconsin Political Science Department. Copies of the lecture and the symposium may be obtained from Mr. Stan­ ley Mallach, Bibliographer, Fromkin Memorial Collection, The University of Wisconsin-Mil­ waukee Library, Milwaukee, W I 53201. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The Annuals of Abstracting, 1665-1970 (v, 54p., multilithed, 8h x 11, soft cover, $2.00) was published by the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service October 1, 1971. The Annals were compiled by the members of the school’s first Seminar on Abstracts and Abstracting Ser­ vices and are edited by Robert Collison. This new chronology records nearly seven hundred significant developments in the history of abstracts and abstracting services through­ out the past three hundred years, starting with the issue (January 5, 1665) of the first number of Denis de Sallo’s famous Journal des Scavans, and ending with the commencement of p ub­ lication in 1970 of the Bulletin of Peace Pro­ posals by the International Peace Research In­ stitute at Oslo. The introduction indicates the main trends reflected by the remarkable and increasing flow of abstracting publications, and an extensive index enables the research worker to track down individual abstracting services under any of their ( sometimes) bewildering changes of title. Copies of this publication, $2.00 each, may be ordered from The Graduate School of Li­ brary Service, University of California, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Billing and instructions for payment will follow ship­ ment of order. • A new publication, Current Serials Re­ ceived by the N .L .L .—March 1971, is a list of the serial titles which were thought to be cur­ rent in the National Lending Library for Sci­ ence and Technology of England, in March 1971. It contains nearly 36,000 titles published in over 100 countries. An earlier list prepared four years ago contained over 26,000 titles. However, because of the expansion of the li­ brary and the rate at which serial titles change, about a third of th e titles in the present list were not included in the earlier edition. Be­ cause of the use of a punched-card system for recording serial titles this list is probably the most up to date of its type in existence. It may well be th e largest which is based on titles actually received. The NLL is endeavoring to collect all the current serials which practitioners in the fields of the natural sciences, the technologies (in ­ 309 social sciences may wish to borrow. Because of the diffuse subject boundaries of serials the NLL inevitably contains a considerable quan­ tity of periodical material in the humanities. For example, the library takes over 77 percent of the periodicals covered by Social Sciences and Humanities Index. One of the difficulties the library faces is discovering new serials as soon as they are pub­ lished. The library would welcome information or samples of new serials published in any part of the world. The list is published by Her Majesty’s Sta­ tionery Office and can be obtained from the Government Bookshops or through any book­ seller. Size 10" x 8", 548 pages, cloth bound. Price £ 3 .1 5 (by post, £ 3 .3 9 ). • A booklet entitled “Data Terminal and Your Library” will be published by The Li­ brary Automation, Research and Consulting (LARC) Association in January 1972. The booklet, prepared and edited by Vera Minkel, is concerned with the needs of industrial li­ braries contemplating computer-based library systems. The booklet describes the Remote Ac­ cess Editing System, showing data terminals as the tool for preparing acquisition lists, bulle­ tins, circulation, check-out, purchasing lists, bibliographies, etc., in industrial libraries. It provides the librarian with a general idea on how to automate routine operations if there is access to computer, a terminal, and an operator. Examples of file structure for each application, as well as cost estimates, are included. The booklet will be approximately 100 pages in length. Hardbound editions will be sold for $10.50. Paperbacks will be available for $8.00. Send orders to The LARC Association, P.O. Box 27235, Tempe, AZ 85282. • The Faculty Speaks: The Kansas State College Library Evaluated, a collection of re­ search materials produced by a detailed sur­ vey of faculty reaction to library services in a four-year college library. The document, com­ piled by Norman E. Tanis and originally con­ sisting of 2,219 pages, was published in 1969 and is available in microfiche from the Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502, at a cost of $3.00. The survey elicits information on: 1. The frequency which faculty members use the college library. 2. W hat other libraries they use in their re­ search. 3. Their reactions to library regulations. 4. Perception of their students’ use of the library. 5. Classroom assignments and library usage. 312 6. Value of dormitory libraries. 7. Changing teaching methods and student use of the library. 8. Faculty instructional plans for changes affecting libraries. 9. The degree to which the library resources encouraged faculty members to come to the college. 10. The kind of faculty participation in col­ lection development the faculty mem­ ber would like to see. 11. The collection policy required for areas not represented in teaching disciplines of the college. 12. The degree of responsibility the library staff has for collection development. 13. Attitude toward microfilm, microcard, etc. 14. Attitude toward a storage building for the library. 15. Needed changes in cataloging and classi­ fication. 16. Attitude toward the qualifications and performance of personnel in the library. • A new edition of the list of serial holdings of the libraries of Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, the Hampshire Inter-Li­ brary Center, and the University of Massachu­ setts has brought holdings of those institutions up to date as of January 1, 1971, and added the serial holdings of the Forbes Library of Northampton. Copies of the new edition are available for $5.00 from the Hampshire Inter- Library Center, Amherst, MA 01002. Checks must accompany orders and should be made out to Five Colleges, Inc. • The Institute of Public Affairs, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, wishes to an­ nounce publication of a recently compiled bib­ liography: Pollution: A Selected Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications on Air, Water, and Land Pollution, 1965-1970. The bibliogra­ phy differentiates the material into two main groups: publications primarily for reference purposes and publications containing general information. A short informative annotation is given for the reference tools, such as abstracts, bibliographies, directories, guides, handbooks, laws, and regulations. Although this bibliogra­ phy is geared primarily to help students and researchers on our campus, it would also be valuable to persons anywhere who are inter­ ested in the problems of pollution, since the titles can be found in most U.S. depository li­ braries. The bibliography was prepared by Louis Kiraldi and Janet L. Burk, members of the library’s Documents Department. The pub­ lication is available for $3.00 from the Insti­ tute of Public Affairs, Western Michigan Uni­ versity, Kalamazoo, MI 49001. • Mr. Clifford P. Crowers, chairman of the Pennsylvania Library Association Public Docu­ ments Committee has announced the publica­ tion of The Union List of Selected Pennsyl­ vania Serial Documents in Pennsylvania Li­ braries. The foreword states: “This selection of titles from the totality of Pennsylvania serial documents has been made on the basis of ex­ tensive working experience with major collec­ tions of those documents. The committee mem­ bers sharing this experience are interested in providing access to what they consider useful information sources which are difficult to iden­ tify and locate because of the often erratic na­ ture of their publication and distribution.” In addition to serial titles, a few monographs have been included which complement certain se­ ries. Each of the eighty libraries participating in the project have received copies of the list as well as the Bureau of Library Development and Pennsylvania Library Association Head­ quarters. A limited number of single copies are free. Anyone wishing a copy can write to Mrs. Nancy Blundon, Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Library Association at Headquar­ ters Office, 200 South Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. ■■