ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 289 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • The University of Pittsburgh’s Curtis Theatre Collection has received a major gift in the papers of the late Thomas and Elmer Ken­ yon, who were long associated with Pittsburgh and national theatre. For many years Thomas Kenyon, 1891-1973, managed Pittsburgh’s Ken­ yon and Pitt Theatres, both founded by his fa­ ther. His brother, Elmer Kenyon, 1886-1949, was president of the Pittsburgh Drama League for seven years, headed Carnegie Tech’s Drama Department from 1931 to 1936, and then re­ sumed a previous association with the New York Theatre Guild that lasted until his retire­ ment in 1947. The bulk of the Kenyon materials spans four decades from 1910-1950. The collection in­ cludes Kenyon Theatre ledgers, 1910-1919, Thomas Kenyon’s notebook evaluation of vaudeville acts, his record of receipts at the Pitt Theatre, and a typescript copy with notes of his brief history of the Pitt Theatre, 1912- 1932. Elmer Kenyon’s typescripts include press stories which he prepared for national Theatre Guild touring productions, with related notes, programs, and correspondence. His scrapbooks cover the period from 1916 to 1936. Innumer­ able loose clippings are on every aspect of the theatre, with considerable material on Pitts­ burgh. Miscellaneous programs date from an 1824 London production of King Lear, and in­ clude a complete set of Kenyon Theatre pro­ grams, 1915-1919. The records and letters in the Kenyon Col­ lection reveal the business side of the theatre, its problems of management, and promotion. Many letters from theatrical notables are among the brothers’ personal and business correspon­ dence. There are, for example, nine from Min­ nie Maddern Fiske dating from 1924 to 1930, as well as many from Maurice Evans, Lucille La Verne, Helen Hayes, and others, with a large group of letters of condolence on Elmer Kenyon’s death. The Curtis Collection is indebted to Profes­ sor Stanley Goodman who donated the theater materials bequeathed to him. • The library of The Western College, in Oxford, Ohio, has now made available for use its 1970 acquisition of the library of Lou­ ise Bogan, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the Bollingen Prize, the Brandeis, and Academy of American Poets awards, etc. Miss Bogan had published poetry and reviews since 1923, and had written the “Verse” column for The New Yorker from 1931 to 1968. The collection, which she described as “the working library of a poet and critic,” contains more than two thousand volumes, primarily of twentieth century poetry and criticism pub­ lished in America, England, France, and Ger­ many. There are particularly strong holdings in Pound, Eliot, Auden, Yeats, Rilke, Ivan Goll, Ernst Jünger, Viola Meynell, and Henry James. Many of the volumes are autographed, many inscribed, many underlined or annotated by Miss Bogan as preliminary to writing a critical piece on the book. Among the rarer individual items are Alcestis, Cuala, Cummington, and Black Sun Press editions and eight inscribed copies of first editions by Edmund Wilson. G R A N T S • The National Science Foundation has awarded $400,000 for continuation of census use activities to the Center for Research Li­ braries. The Clearinghouse and Laboratory for Census Data (CLCD) was developed jointly by the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago and National Data Use and Access Laboratories (DUALabs) in Washington, D.C. in January 1972 to insure the maximum application of census data to research applied to national needs. The CLCD’s major activities have been in training of users of the census, providing orientation and guidance on the use of census data for particular problems, developing a broad range of publications, catalogs, and ref­ erence guides, and assisting users in finding the census data they need for their research. Over 4,000 people have received assistance to date through the CLCD and its network of User Contact Sites located in nineteen states. Any person with a problem to which census data might be applied can go to these sites for free orientation and guidance. The new grant from the National Science Foundation assures that the CLCD will con­ tinue to serve users through 1974. Economists, administrators, educators, planners, demogra­ phers, and all others whose work may benefit from the application of census data are en­ couraged to write to the CLCD for detailed information about the publications, seminars, free guidance and data reference services avail­ able to them. • The University of South Carolina li­ braries have received grants totaling $40,000 to secure materials concerning current social problems. 290 USC received eight $5,000 grants awarded by the U.S. Office of Education’s College Li­ brary Resources Program. The eight grants were allotted to each regional campus library as well as to the Law Library on the main uni­ versity campus. Materials purchased under the grants will be in the areas of black and disadvantaged studies, drug abuse, reading education, environmental problems, and legal aid procedures. M E E T I N G S April 28-M ay 1, 1974: Clinic on Library Applications of D ata Processing. Conduct­ ed by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, the theme of this eleventh annual clinic will be “The Application of Mini­ computers to Library and Related Problems.” The clinic will include a tutorial on minicom­ puters, demonstrations, and papers describing specific applications. The subject is one of great current interest because minicomputers may of­ fer important economic advantages in library automation and because they provide a means whereby a library may achieve greater control over its data processing activities. Mr. F. W. Lancaster, professor of library science, is chair­ m an of the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Leonard E. Sigler, Clinic Supervisor OS-97, Conferences and Institutes, 116 Illini Hall, Champaign, IL 61820. May 24-25, 1974: Midwest Academic Li­ brarians Conference, to be held on the cam­ pus of The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Details: William C. Roselle, Director, UWM Library, Milwaukee, W I 53201. M I S C E L L A N Y • Faculty members at the University of Maryland are helping to plan for UNESCO’s UNISIST program, a specialized course for managers of information services in developing countries. As a first stage, UNESCO provided support for th e participation of three librarians from developing countries in the seventh annu­ al Library Administrators D evelopment Program, conducted by the College of Library and Information Services at the Donaldson Brown Center of the university, from July 15- 27, 1973. The three fellowship holders were Simeon Babasanya Aj'e, director of the National Library of Nigeria, Lagos; Günsel Korul, direc­ tor of TURDOK’s Library, Ankara, Turkey; and Octavio Rojas-Leon, chief of the Division of Documentation, Colombian Foundation for Sci­ entific Investigation and Special Projects, Bo­ gota. In addition, Jaime Pontigo, an officer of the Centro de Servicios de Informacion y Docu- mentacion, Del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, in Mexico City, participated in the course with the support of his government. Based upon the evaluative process conducted during and following the 1973 Library Admin­ istrators Development Program, in which the participants from the developing countries of­ fered significant insights and suggestions, effort is now under way leading to the design of a projected program for consideration by U N I­ SIST for later implementation, patterned after the Maryland Library Administrators Develop­ m ent Program, b u t oriented to the precise m an­ agerial needs for those responsible for national information systems in developing countries. In all a total of forty individuals took part in the seventh annual offering of the Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program. Planning is now under way for the eighth annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 28-August 9, 1974. Brochures and descriptive details of the program will be avail­ able late in the fall and inquiries are invited from interested library administrators. Requests may be directed to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Ad­ ministrative Assistant, Library Administrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. • Page Ackerman, university librarian at University of California, Los Angeles, received a Distinguished Alumni Award at the annual convocation ceremonies on University Day of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 12, 1973. Ms. Ackerman was graduated from the UNC School of Library Sci­ ence in 1940. In an interview earlier this year in American Libraries, Ms. Ackerman said th at one had to be an “irrational optimist” to be a library ad­ ministrator these days. Citing this interview at a dinner sponsored by the School of Library Science Alumni Association on October 11, Dean Edw ard G. Holley noted th at Ms. Acker­ m an’s achievement calls for special congratula­ tions in this era of tough times for adminis­ trators of whatever kinds. H e added that “W e always hope, in a democratic society, that those who achieve major roles are not merely bureau­ crats or technocrats b u t individuals of broad vision, noble aims and humane qualities as well as superior expertise. All of her colleagues testify th at this is indeed true of alumna Page Ackerman, th at among the many traits which stand out in her repertoire are her genuine con­ cern for people and her willingness to make their problems her own.” • Ten librarians from the major libraries of the People’s Republic of China visited librar­ ies, library organizations, and related institu­ tions in the United States in October. 291 This visit, under the auspices of the United States Department of State, is one of a series of visits by scholars and professional personnel from the People’s Republic of China. It was co­ ordinated by a committee from the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science Re­ search Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The head of the delegation was Mr. Liu Chi-ping, director of the National Library of Peking. • “The Higher Education Resource Ser­ vices (HERS), funded by the Ford Founda­ tion and established at Brown University, Prov­ idence, R.I. 02912, will serve as a nationwide clearinghouse for faculty and administrative openings for women in higher education. HERS invites individuals and institutional officers to send notices of positions. Candidates may regis­ ter by sending a vita and statement of their needs and preferences.”—Guidepost, August 31, 1973. • The role of librarians and the library in the East Carolina University community was the center of discussion for an all-day workshop for the library faculty on August 23, 1973. Dr. Martha Jane Zachert, professor, School of Library Science, Florida State Uni­ versity, set the tone and delivered the primary challenge for the workshop in a keynote speech attended by librarians from throughout Eastern North Carolina the preceding evening. The following day consisted of an introduc­ tory session, three smaller work groups and a finale work session of the groups together. Each participant had an opportunity to acquire some information via reading and viewing, to discuss the university environment in the 1970s and fi­ nally to focus on the library’s role in this en­ vironment. The closing session was a summing- up which featured a socio-drama. The library faculty agreed that a statement or conceptuali­ zation of role will require more than one day. By consensus, plans were formulated to pursue the definition of role and provide a means of participation in the formulation of such state­ ments by the library faculty. Professor Walter McLendon of the School of Education participated with the librarians in exploring new concepts in Higher Education and new types of educational media. • Coordination of multicampus automation projects serving the University of Califor­ nia’s libraries has been placed in a central office under a director of the University-wide Library Automation Program (ULAP). Jay L. Cunningham, a project manager in UC’s Insti­ tute of Library Research, has been appointed to the director’s position. Library automation has been under way for several years at the University of California, which is considered one of the pioneers in this field. Each of the nine campus libraries has specialists for automa­ tion on its staff, and a central staff has been also working on such problems in the Univer­ sity-wide Institute of Library Research (ILR ). With growing emphasis on automation, co­ ordination of the various campus projects be­ comes increasingly important, to insure that ap­ plications are compatible. UC also maintains close contact with similar efforts at the Cali­ fornia State University and Colleges, with an eye to the future, when such activities as co­ ordination of journal subscriptions, high-cost book purchases, circulation, and interlibrary borrowing between the two segments of public higher education may be greatly facilitated by automated procedures. Among projects well under way are the fol­ lowing: University of California Union Catalog Supplement; Union List of Serials; Bibliograph­ ic Center. Envisaged for the future are automated cir­ culation procedures, under which each borrow­ er would be given a wallet-size card and the charge slip in the back of the book would like­ wise be machine-readable, such as a punched card. Other projects include a clearinghouse that would indicate instantaneously whether a new book recommended for purchase has been already ordered by another campus; and the streamlining of library accounting procedures. • The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science welcomes help in augmenting its publishing program (1) through suggestions of topics for Library Trends or of out-of-print titles which should be reprinted, and (2) through receipt of manu­ scripts for consideration in the monograph or Occasional Papers series. For information on any series or to forward a suggestion or manuscript write to: Publica­ tions Office, Graduate School of Library Sci­ ence, 215 Armory Building, University of Illi­ nois, Champaign, IL 61820. • Individuals, libraries, booksellers, and oth­ ers who possess a copy or copies of the work A Bibliography of American Children’s Books Printed Prior to 1821 by d’Alte A. Welch, published in 1972 by the American An­ tiquarian Scoiety and Barre Publishers, may now obtain a four-page supplementary “Index to Titles Listed Under Author Without Cross References.” The index is intended to be tipped in follow­ ing the main index. The usefulness of the vol­ ume will therefore be enhanced. The supplement may be ordered by writing 292 to John B. Hench, Editor of Publications, Am­ erican Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA 01609. There is no charge for the index to owners of the Welch bibliography. P U B L I C A T I O N S • The Wild Goose Band has entered into an agreement with the University of Toronto Press to produce The Canadian Index. This ma­ jor contribution to Canadian bibliography will provide author-title-subject access to the con­ tents of Canadian anthologies and literary or “little” and “alternative” magazines, all of which have previously been irretrievable. About 150 collections of essays, short stories, plays, and poetry a year will be indexed, plus about 50 little magazines which are not cov­ ered by the Canadian Periodical Index. There will be two major sections: essays, including a listing of reviews of books, records, films, plays, etc., and literature, covering short stories, plays, and poems. Produced under the direction of librarians Andrew Armitage and Nancy Tudor, the first volume of this annual publication, covering 1973, will be issued by the end of 1974. I t will be among the first of a series of significant Ca­ nadian bibliographic reference tools being de­ veloped by the band. The Wild Goose Band is a consortium of dedicated Canadian librarians who are special­ ists in custom-produced information packages. They realize that there is a lack of bibliograph­ ic control over Canadian studies and the popu­ lar media. They have adopted the wild goose as a distinctive Canadian symbol. BAND also stands for the initials of their first names. For further information, please contact either Dean or Nancy Tudor, 300 Robert Street, To­ ronto, Canada M5S 2K8 or Andrew or Bettie Armitage, Mt. Pleasant Farm, R.R. 2, Annan, Ontario, Canada N4K 1B8. • Information Resources in the Environ­ mental Sciences, proceedings of an Allerton Park Institute in November 1972, has been published by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham­ paign. Single copies are available from the Illini Union Bookstore, Urbana, IL 61801. The price is $6.00 a copy. • The Library of Congress has recently pub­ lished A Revised Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Mexico, superseding a 1945 work originally published as one of a series of ten guides to Latin American law. Helen L. Clag- ett, former chief of the Hispanic Law Division of the Law Library, and David M. Valderrama, senior legal specialist in the same division, have co-authored the new 463-page book. The new Mexican guide, like its predecessor, is essentially a legal reference aid designed to lead interested researchers to the principal sources. The co-authors of the present work, however, express the hope that “by combining legislative history and commentaries on the codified and statutory fields of law with ex­ haustive bibliographical footnotes as to the texts and other forms of literature, the work may convey a sense of the growth of Mexican Con­ stitutional Government, and a sense that this has been a major factor in making the modern state of Mexico.” The work is divided into ten major fields of Mexican law, which are further broken down into a number of subdivisions, topics, and sub- topics. A chapter usually commences with a brief legislative history from Mexico’s inde­ pendent existence through 1970. Unlike the old edition, the present one offers constructive com­ ments in certain fields. I t begins with the chap­ ter on constitutional law which has been great­ ly expanded to include historical data that fur­ nishes a whole new perspective on the founda­ tions and structural evolution of Mexican law and institutions. Amparo, that special and ex­ traordinary legal writ unique to Mexico, is highlighted and should be of particular interest to legal scholars and practitioners from both common law and civil law jurisdictions. A Revised Guide to the Law and Legal Lit­ erature of Mexico (ISBN 0-8444-0047-5) is available by mail for $6.95 from the Superin­ tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print­ ing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock Number 3001-0049; Catalog No. LC 1.16:38). • The Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Michigan Library Association has prepared a manual for the use of librarians which is most helpful to them in planning how to deal with the problem of censorship in libraries. It also contains suggested forms to be used. It may be obtained by sending $2.00 to: Michigan Li­ brary Association, 226 W. Washtenaw, Lansing, MI 48933. • Alternative Press, special publications held by Oakland University, is a guide to the Kresge Library Alternative Press Collection of over 600 distinct titles on microfilm and in hard copy. In addition to the holdings listed in the guide, the Alternative Press Collection houses an historical information file on various groups and publications concerned with the “alterna­ tive” viewpoint. Available for $1.50 per copy from: Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48063. Attn. Elizabeth A. Titus, Compiler. 293 • The Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh announces the publi­ cation of A Contemporary Reading Program for the Professional Alumnus by James A. Wilson and Oxanna S. Kaufman. The sixty-six-page annotated bibliography of­ fers a general and popular listing of poetry, plays, fiction, and especially nonfiction works that embrace scholarly and artistic fields, and a number of cultures. It is designed to serve as a guide to professional school graduates who wish to attain a better understanding of their world, their culture, and themselves, as well as a general reading list for various college courses. Both authors are faculty members of the Uni­ versity of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wilson is associate professor of Business Administration and Mrs. Kaufman is a librarian and adjunct associate professor of the Graduate School of Social Work. The book is available from Mr. Joseph Mel- edin, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Business, 1627 Cathedral of Learning, Pitts­ burgh, PA 15260 at $3.00 a copy, prepaid. • The Office of University Library Manage­ ment Studies of the Association of Research Li­ braries has issued Vol. 1, No. 4, of the ARL Management Supplement. Entitled Review of Management Training Activities in Academic and Research Libraries, this issue was edited by Jeffrey J. Gardner, Management Research Specialist at the Office of University Library Management Studies, and discusses approaches to management training of selected research li­ braries and programs developed by library schools, professional associations, and regional and national organizations. Requests for copies of this Supplement should be sent to the Office of University Li­ brary Management Studies, Association of Re­ search Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036. The cost for each Supplement is $1.00 prepaid. • The Stanford University libraries has pub­ lished a Guide to Selected Reference Materials: Russia and East Europe, compiled by Wojciech Zalewski, curator of Russian and East European materials. The guide contains about 2,000 en­ tries, listing reference and basic research tools in the areas of general reference, history, lin­ guistics, and literature held in the Stanford University libraries as of August 1973. It is in two parts, one covering Russia, the other Bul­ garia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia. An abbreviated main entry and the Stanford classification numbers are used. The Resources Development Program of the Stanford University libraries has also published The Holdings of the Stanford University Li­ braries on Latin American Languages and Lin­ guistics, edited by James M. Breedlove, curator for Latin American materials. The list includes approximately 1,000 entries on the Latin Amer­ ican variants of Spanish and Portuguese, the Creole languages of the Caribbean, and 113 in­ digenous languages. It includes a periodicals list at the end. The full main entry, titles, se­ ries notes, and the Stanford classification num­ ber are used. Books, monographs, and micro­ texts are included in the list. The Stanford University Data File Directory, compiled by Douglas Ferguson, is a library-pro­ duced access publication for computerized data files. The Directory lists and describes collec­ tions of social, economic, political, and scien­ tific research data on punched cards, computer tape, and disk, located at Stanford University. Each file description directs the user to docu­ mentation and published research in the uni­ versity library collection or elsewhere. Access to each data file is controlled by the file holder whose name is listed in each file description. The price for each of the above guides is $5.00. Copies may be obtained by writing to the Financial Office, Stanford University Li­ braries, Stanford, CA 94305. ■ ■ A V A I L A B L E N O W ! A N e w L i b r a r y T o o l . SERIALS: Acquisition & M aintenance by Clara D. Brown Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76:189654 Mrs. Brown has authored this book during retirement after 30 years serv­ ice as librarian at Washington State and Louisiana State Universities. Librarians who have reviewed the volume find it “ down to earth and extremely clear” . . “ outlines with wit and perception all of the d iffic u l­ ties with which serials people must contend and suggests solutions.” Order Now at $4.95 (CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER) EBSCO industries, Inc. Attn: Sam Brown P.0. Box 1943 Birmingham, Ala. 35201 L A T E S T A C R L P U B L IC A T IO N IN L IB R A R IA N S H IP The Johnny Appleseed o f Libraries T H O M A S BRAY'S G R A N D D ESIG N ACRL Publications in Librarianship No. 35 C h arles Laugher His design was to establish a system of clerical and secular libraries throughout the colonies— helping ministers in their role as Christian educators and fostering Anglicanism in America.This monograph traces the efforts of the eighteenth-century scholar ana missionary in collect­ ing funds, securing placement of books, helping to pass needed legis­ lation, compiling bibliographies, and planning libraries. Despite constant resistance from many sources, Thomas Bray founded more than one hundred libraries between New York and Geor­ gia. His cultural significance is established and his advocating a net­ work of public libraries moved him one hundred years ahead of his time. Of special interest to students of colonial and library history and to all seeking an understanding of the relationship between culture and libraries. ISBN 0-8389-0151-4 (1973) Cloth $9.95 O T H E R T O P -S E L L IN G A C R L P U B L IC A T IO N S IN L IB R A R IA N S H IP THE CASE FOR FACULTY STATUS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS (No. 33) Lewis C. Branscomb Thirteen papers provide lively and live ammunition for those advocating faculty status fo r librarians— and full academic recognition. ISBN 0-8389-3114-6 (1970) Paper $5.00 INTERLIBRARY LOAN INVOLVING ACADEMIC LIBRARIES (No. 32) Sarah Katharine Thomson Determines the influence of procedures, policies, readers, libraries, and many other factors on the success or failure of interlibrary loan requests. ISBN 0-8389-3010-7 (1970) Paper $5.00 THE UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY (No. 31) Irene A. Braden The undergraduate libraries of six major universities are analyzed fo r th e ir purpose; development; financing; physi­ cal layout; book collection, acquisition, size and scope; staff; etc. ISBN 0-8389-3097-2 (1970) Paper $8.50 JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES Development, Needs, and Perspectives (No. 30) Everett Leroy Moore, ed. Covers library needs of the new campus, the library as it supports instruction, the library and research, library edu­ cation and personnel, library facilities and equipment. ISBN 0-8389-3090-5 (1969) Paper $3.00 THE CAREER OF THE ACADEMIC LIBRARIAN (No. 29) Perry D. Morrison ISBN 0-8389-3089-1 (1969) Paper $4.50 THE ABBREVIATED CITATION A Bibliographical Problem (No. 28) Mary R. Kinney ISBN 0-8389-3004-2 (1967) Paper $2.25 RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS Some Theoretical and Practical Suggestions for Use by Librarians and Students (No. 27) H. Richard Archer, ed. ISBN 0-8389-3066-2 (1965) Paper $3.50 THE PRINTED BOOK CATALOGUE IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES: 1723-1900 (No. 26) Jim Ranz ISBN 0-8389-3062-X (1964) Paper $3.00 ALA AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ast Huron Street • Chicago, Illinois 6 0 611. 5 0 E 294