ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 93 News From the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • Recent acquisitions of The New York His­ torical Society include four linear feet of cor­ respondence and papers, 1842-1920, of Richard Grant White, author, and of his son, Stanford White, architect. Included in the father’s papers are literary manuscripts, manuscript music, twenty-six letters from James Russell Lowell, and eleven letters from Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The Stanford White material includes a great many letters from American artists and sculp­ tors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens and John La Farge. • On January 29, 1971, The New York Public Library made available to the public for the first time one of the world’s largest col­ lections of H. L. Mencken’s correspondence. Some 30,000 letters to and from the great American writer and editor came to the li­ brary’s manuscript division soon after Menck­ en’s death fifteen years ago, but in accordance with the terms of his will, were not made pub­ lic until now. Mencken’s hundreds of correspondents came from all over the world and many walks of life: writers, editors, artists, politicians, actors and actresses, musicians, and many ordinary people who contributed words and phrases to his col­ lection in The American Language. There are letters from contributors and would-be contrib­ utors to Smart Set and The American Mercury, the magazines Mencken and George Jean Na­ than edited 1914-23 and 1924-33, respective­ ly. Mencken exchanged letters with librarians, publishers, prison inmates, and many members of his family, even those living near him in Bal­ timore. The letters were kept in neat files, often with cross-references and Mencken’s own com­ ments and observations. There is a postcard from Harlan Miller, a Des Moines journalist, describing a visit with the ninety-two-year-old George Bernard Shaw and asking Mencken to send Shaw some books. Aldous Huxley, who was to edit D. H. Lawrence’s letters in 1930, wrote to Mencken in 1921 about the newly published Women in Love. In 1947, when James Thurber wrote some gossip from The New Yorker, he said that Harold Ross (the magazine’s editor, with whom Mencken had copious correspondence) had been campaign­ ing to rid the language of the word “which.” Thurber admits to having called Ross’s plan a “which hunt.” • In April 1970 the University of Califor­ nia library at Riverside acquired a collection of about 7,500 volumes in the field of fantasy and science fiction collected by the late Dr. J. Lloyd Eaton of Oakland, California. His col­ lection is especially rich in early and scarce items published from 1870 to 1930, and is one of the largest of its genre in the United States. Many major eighteenth-century titles are in­ cluded, works by minor eighteenth- and nine­ teenth-century English and American authors, as well as in-depth collections of the works of H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who is now enjoying a revival, and many contemporary authors such as A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and E. E. Smith. During the twenties and thirties, Dr. Eaton began collecting fantasy and science fiction and picked up many periodicals. He began to col­ lect seriously during the forties, corresponding with American and British bookdealers to se­ cure copies of works in his field of interest. Dr. Eaton’s collection has been recognized as one of the foremost of its type. E. F. Bleiler, the first bibliographer of science fiction, acknowl­ edged Dr. Eaton’s help and cooperation in the compilation of his own work. Other bibliog­ raphers also acknowledged their indebtedness to Dr. Eaton, often presenting him with in­ scribed, first-edition copies of their works. The University of California library at River­ side had previously collected early works in utopian literature and imaginary voyages, and now plans to expand the Eaton Collection by acquiring the more recent volumes of science fiction and fantasy, as well as the classic titles needed to round out the collection. • The University of Iowa libraries have re­ ceived as a gift the library of the late Professor Leo W. Schwarz. Professor Schwarz was a visit­ ing professor in the School of Religion for sev­ eral years during the 1960s prior to his death in 1969. In making the gift, Mrs. Schwarz, who resides in New York City, stated that she was particularly desirous that her late husband’s books and papers come to the University of Iowa as Professor Schwarz had developed great fondness for the institution and admiration for the concept of the School of Religion. The collection consists of approximately 850 books in Hebrew and about a thousand in other languages. A particularly valuable and rare group of the books deals with Hasidic litera­ ture. Other portions comprise Old Testament studies and works on Jewish history, philosophy and culture, the Jews in Nazi Germany, Jewish folklore, and the history of the Jews in the United States. In addition, there are manu­ scripts of several of Professor Schwarz’s books 94 95 and articles, as well as correspondence, notes, and background research relating to his publi­ cations. • The collections department, University of Maryland libraries, has acquired samples of all material published since 1876 by the Stan- brook Abbey Press, Worcester, England. Run by members of the Benedictine order, the press was originally created to provide religious texts for that community. Its work soon came to the attention of such private pressmen as Sydney Cockerell and Emery Walker, and by the late 1920s it was active in the revival of fine print­ ing in England. Now the oldest continuous pri­ vate press in England, Stanbrook Abbey has ex­ panded its work to include poetry, essays, and other secular work. The collection contains more than 200 items, including copies of the Rule of St. Benedict published in 1887, 1892, 1898, and 1930; announcements, sample pages, and text of Siegfried Sassoon’s The Path to Peace; variant bindings of Raissa Maritain’s Patriarch Tree; other specimens of printing in types by Jan Van Krimpen, a number of these supervised by him before his death in 1958; and samples of calligraphy and graphics. • A collection of notebooks, letters, family papers, first editions, manuscripts, and other pa­ pers of Robert Frost has been given to the University of Virginia Alderman Library by collector C. Waller Barrett of Charlottesville. The gift includes the only surviving copy of “Twilight,” Frost’s first collection of poems printed in 1894 by a job printer in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Frost had two copies of this first book printed; one for his future bride, Elinor White, and one for himself, which he later de­ stroyed. The gift from Barrett, a member of the uni­ versity’s Board of Visitors, is “one of the best Frost collections in existence,” says William H. Runge, Alderman Library’s curator of rare books. Included in the gift, which is valued at $60,000, are first editions of nine Frost books, autograph manuscripts of two unpublished plays, a letter of proposal from Frost’s father to his mother, and the order of exercises of the forty-first anniversary of Lawrence High School of Lawrence, Massachusetts, containing the “Class Hymn” written by Frost, then senior class poet. • Gerard McCabe, director of university li­ braries at Virginia Commonwealth Univer­ sity in Richmond has announced the acquisi­ tion of a significant collection of materials cen­ tered on novelist James Branch Cabell. The col­ lection falls into several broad categories: al­ most one hundred books and pamphlets by Cabell—first editions, revised volumes, and re­ prints—many of which he inscribed; books to which he contributed, comprising some twenty volumes; books in part or completely about him, some twenty-two in all; bound magazines, containing over 225 original stories by Cabell and some twenty-eight magazine articles about him from the major periodicals of the day; and twenty-seven letters. Most of the letters are from Cabell to Maurice J. Speiser, a Philadel­ phia attorney, who helped Cabell publish his works in Germany and France. They were writ­ ten between April 1921 and October 1934. G R A N T S • The Seeley G. Mudd Fund of Los Angeles has awarded Oberlin College a grant of $2,750,000 toward its planned new library building. Oberlin is the first undergraduate col­ lege to be awarded a grant from the fund. The new building will be named The Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center in memory of the late Dr. Mudd of Los Angeles, who died March 10, 1968. It will contain the main library collection of the college, plus audiovisual and computer facilities. Estimated cost of the project is $11,000,000. The Seeley G. Mudd Learning Center will be located at the center of the cam­ pus, between Wilder and Dascomb Halls. It will be five stories high and contain 190,000 square feet, making it the largest building on the Oberlin campus. The center was designed by the New York architectural firm of Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde. The new library in the learning center will accommodate nearly 800,000 volumes and will have seating space for 1,300 students with emphasis on individual­ ized study carrels. • The University of Iowa has received a federal grant of $2,335,755 from the Division of Educational and Research Facilities, Bureau of Health Professions Education and Manpower Training, National Institutes of Health, to help finance construction of a new Health Sciences Library. The total building cost is more than $4,000,000. That portion not funded by the federal grant is provided by private gifts con­ tributed through the University of Iowa Foun­ dation. Construction will begin in 1971. The library will have approximately 90,000 gross and 60,000 net square feet located on four levels in the center of the health sciences campus. For the first time, the medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing, and speech pathology li­ braries will be combined in one building within walking distance of the colleges, the labora­ tories, and the teaching hospitals. Current jour­ nals are to be located on the main floor, and books are to be one floor above while older journals will be on two levels below the main floor. The estimated book capacity is 220,000 volumes. Seating has been provided for slightly more than 1,000 readers, most of which will be 96 at carrels rather than at tables. Forty intensive study units are planned for faculty, visiting sci­ entists, and Ph.D. candidates who are in the process of writing dissertations. The architects are Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Miss Louise Darling, biomedical librarian, University of Cal­ ifornia at Los Angeles, is library consultant. M E E T IN G S April 1-3: The third meeting of the Con­ ference on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries will be held April 1-3, 1971. Sponsors of this meeting are The New York Botanical Garden and The Horticultural Society of New York. Conference registration and membership infor­ mation is available from John F. Reed, Curator of the Library, The New York Botanical Gar­ den, Bronx, New York 10458. April 8: “The Academic Librarian: Educat­ ing, Yes; Serving, No” is the subject of the 1971 institute of the Library Association of the City University of New York. The institute, to be held at Queens College on April 8, will be open to librarians and to interested students, faculty, and administrators. For program infor­ mation see March CRL News. For further information contact Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, New York 10031. Phone: 212-621-2268. April 16: A one-day lexicography confer­ ence at Indiana State University will concern itself with the history of dictionaries in England and North America, as well as their study. Members of the standing committee on lexicog­ raphy of the Modern Language Association and well-known authorities and collectors of dic­ tionaries will serve as speakers and panel-dis­ cussants. Anyone interested in further details should direct inquiries to Professor J. Edward Gates, Department of English, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809. April 23-24: The College and Reference Section of the Kentucky Library Association will be meeting on April 23-24 at Rough River State Park in Kentucky. The theme of the meet­ ing will be the “College Library.” Contact Brantley H. Parsley, Library Direc­ tor, Campbellsville College, Campbellsville, Kentucky 42718 for further information. April 29-M ay 2: The Library Association of Alberta will be holding its annual meeting in Calgary April 29-May 2. The program is de­ scribed in March CRL News. Anyone interest­ ed in further information on the conference should contact B. B. Manson, Information Cen­ ter, University of Calgary, Library, Calgary 44, Alberta, Canada. April 30-May 1: “Modern Trends in Library Evaluation” will be the subject of the spring conference of the College and University Li­ braries Section, New York Library Association, scheduled for April 30 and May 1, 1971, at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. The program is being cosponsored by the Resources and Technical Services Section of NYLA. For additional information please contact Miss Mar­ garet Martignoni, Executive Secretary, NYLA, Box 521, Woodside, New York 11377. May 6-7: The 8th Annual National Informa­ tion Retrieval Colloquium (ANIRC) will be held in Philadelphia, May 6-7. For details see March CRL News. The 8th annual meeting will be held a t the new Holiday Inn, 18th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Additional information may be obtained from program chairman Don King, Graduate School of Library Service at Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Inquiries and registration materi­ al requests should be addressed to Miss A. Ber­ ton, MDS-COP, 19 South 22d Street, Philadel­ phia, Pennsylvania 19103. May 7: Exploring a number of practical so­ lutions to the problems of how to motivate stu­ dents to use the library, how to teach the prop­ er methods of research, and how to assist teach­ ing faculty in the maximum usage of library re­ sources for curriculum planning will be the cen­ tral theme for the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on May 7, 1971, at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents who are concerned with this vital and challenging problem are invited to participate. Registration will close on April 15 and regis­ trants will be limited to 75 persons. For further information please contact Sul H. Lee, Associ­ ate Librarian, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197. May 7-8: Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians will hold its annual meeting at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, May 7-8. The topic will be “The Challenge of Reprints.” May 13-15: Library Automation: Workshop in Administration and Management. See entry for Mar. 11-13, above. May 20-22: A three-day institute entitled “Library Management: Man-Material-Service” will be held at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, May 20-22, 1971. The institute is intended for library administrators and super­ visors. For further information, write Depart­ 97 98 ANNO UNCED REPRINTS Announced Reprints issued quarterly in February, May, August, and November, lists forthcoming reprints of books, journals, and other materials to be reissued in full-size, hardbound form by publishers both in the United States and abroad. Each issue cumu­ lates all previous issues for that year and if an announced title is published during the year subsequent issues carry an asterisk before the listing. Sof†bound. Postage paid. $30.00 per year. GUIDE TO REPRINTS. 1971. You can find over 47,500 reprint titles quickly and easily in the new 1971 edition. Here in one convenient volume you will find books, journals, etc. th a t have been reprinted by 265 publishers both domestic and foreign. Each entry includes: author, title, date of original publication, name of reprint publisher, current price for the reprint. 318pp. Sof†bound. Published annually, $10.00 postpaid. GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1971. Lists over 19,000 books, journals, newspapers, and multi-volume sets available on microfilm (16mm and 35mm), microfiche and micro-opaque cards from publishers in the United States. Entries give full ordering information: aut h o r/t it le, name of pub­ lisher, current price, microform used. Soft bound. 128 pages. Published annually. $6.00 postpaid. SUBJECT GUIDE TO MICROFORMS IN PRINT. 1 9 7 0 -7 1 . Over 19,000 titles arranged by subject will be found in the 1970-71 edition of the Subject Guide to Microforms in Print. This is the convenient reference book that enables libraries to determine what titles on a given subject are available on microfilm and other microforms. Sof†bound. 118 pages. Published biennially. $6.00 postpaid. 99 ment of Library Science, Indiana State Univer­ sity, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809. May 21-22: Sixteenth annual Midwest Aca­ demic Librarians Conference a t Indiana Uni­ versity, Bloomington. For information contact Dr. Jane G. Flener, Assistant Director, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. The previously announced dates of April 23-24 have been changed due to conflicts. May 30-June 3: The 70th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association will be held in New York City, May 30-June 3. June 14-17: The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, will be the site of th e Six­ teenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 14-17. Infor­ mation on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Dr. Net­ tie Lee Benson, Latin American Collections, The University of Texas Library, Austin, Texas 78704. For details on the program and arrange­ ments see the March CRL News. For other in­ formation refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 20006. June 17-19: Library administrators faced with shrinking tax dollars and expanding needs in 1971 can expect more of the same in 1972. As library finances reach crisis proportions, many are searching for new approaches to the perennial problem of allocating funds. To help decision-makers in this process, the Library Or­ ganization and Management Section of ALA’s Library Administration Division is sponsoring a preconference institute June 17-19 at the Holi­ day Inn in downtown Dallas. Called “Dollar Decisions,” the institute will cover several types of program and performance budgeting systems and will feature Dr. Selma Mushkin, Director of the State and Local Finances Division, Georgetown University, and leading authority in the budgeting field. Also on the program are Robert Rohlf, director of Hennepin County ( Minnesota) Library, which is now in the proc­ ess of converting its fiscal operation to PPBS ( Planning-Performance Budgeting System) ; and William Summers, formerly Florida state librarian, now research fellow at Rutgers Uni­ versity School of Library Service, who will compare several types of budgeting systems now in use. Participants will get a chance to try these techniques in two problem-solving ses­ sions. The registration fee is $35.00, and the group is limited to 150 persons. For further in­ formation write Dollar Decisions, Library Ad­ ministration Division, American Library Associ­ ation, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago 60611. July 11-13: The School of Library and In­ formation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the fifth annual Library Administra­ tors Development Program to be held July 11- 23. Those interested in further information are invited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, School of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742. The January News contains complete details. July 20-23: The third Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems will be held July 20- July 23 in Bedford, England. See the December News, Meetings section, for complete details on the topics to be covered and general theme outline. Enquiries or offers to present papers should be sent to the Conference Director, Cyril Cleverdon, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, England. Aug. 29-Sep t. 3: The International Confer­ ence on Information Science in Tel Aviv orig­ inally announced for August 23-28, has been changed to the week following the IFIP Con­ ference in Yugoslavia, from August 29 to Sep­ tember 3. Group flights a t reduced rates will be available from various points including Yu­ goslavia. Titles and abstracts are due no later than January 1971. Registration fee ($50) in­ cludes a ladies’ program and a tour of Jerusa­ lem. For further information contact: The Or­ ganizing Committee, P.O. Box 16271, Tel Aviv, Israel. See also September News, page 249. Se p t. 30-O ct. 2: The Indiana Library Asso­ ciation will meet at Stouffer’s Inn, Indianapo­ lis, Indiana. Further information can be ob­ tained from Jane G. Flener, President, Indiana Library Association, Indiana University Li­ brary, Bloomington, Indiana 47401. Oct. 22-23: The North Dakota Library Asso­ ciation will hold its 1971 convention in Fargo on Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23. Headquarters will be the Town House Motel. M IS C E L L A N Y • The 1971-72 ALA Nominating Commit­ tee is soliciting suggestions from membership for candidates for the office of President-elect; Treasurer, 1972-76; and Councilors-at-Large, 1972-76. The committee is especially interested in securing the names of individuals who have made contributions to state and regional or­ ganizations b u t who may not yet be known na­ tionally. Short statements, outlining th e contri­ butions of those persons suggested and accom­ panying the recommendations, will be particu­ larly helpful to the committee. Letters can be 100 addressed to any member of the committee: Mrs. Susanna Alexander (Chairm an), Associate State Librarian, Missouri State Library, 308 East High Street, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101; William D. Cunningham, Library Ser­ vices Program Officer, U.S.O.E., 601 East 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106; Mrs. Yuri Nakata, Documents Librarian, University of Il­ linois at Chicago Circle Campus Library, Chi­ cago, Illinois 60680; Dr. Nasser Sharify, Dean, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 11205; Miss Peggy Sullivan, 1219 W est Foster Ave­ nue, Apartment 7, Chicago, Illinois 60640. • An institute dealing with the physical and natural sciences and their relationship with law librarianship is now being planned for the sum­ mer of 1971. The proposed four-week course, to be funded by a grant from the National Sci­ ence Foundation, will be administered by the University of California Extension under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools and will be held at the Earl W ar­ ren Legal Center, University of California, Berkeley, from July 19 to August 13, 1971. The institute, the third in a series, will in­ vestigate the interconnections of the physical and natural sciences with the uses and needs of law librarians. Emphasis will be on biblio­ graphical research and individually directed study in addition to lectures and laboratory work. The proposed institute will endeavor to introduce the participants to the literature and research tools in some of the biological, be­ havioral, and natural sciences, as well as social sciences that have implications for legal study and scholarship today. Leading scholars in the fields of anthropology, biology, city and region­ al planning, environmental engineering, demog­ raphy, medicine, etc., will lecture on and hold round table discussions on the basic bibliogra­ phy and literature of their particular disciplines. The permanent faculty will consist of profes­ sors Roy M. Mersky of Texas and J. Myron Ja­ cobstein of Stanford; Thomas H. Reynolds of the University of California, Berkeley, will be the resident director. The faculty will then be augmented by some ten scholars and scientists. Enrollment will be limited to twenty experi­ enced law librarians who will each receive sti­ pends of $1,000 to cover living and travel ex­ penses. The University of California will pro­ vide pleasant dormitory and cafeteria facilities within two blocks of the School of Law at a reasonable cost. While this institute is not yet an assured and final project, because of the currency and im­ portance of the subject matter this advance an­ nouncement is being made. Such a program will not only increase the expertise and knowl­ edge of the participating librarians, bu t should have lasting benefits for their law libraries in the form of an increased awareness of the part these sciences now play in legal education as well as in the actual bibliographies th at will re­ sult from the individual research. Complete information and a tentative pro­ gram will be distributed as soon as the grant is made, but pending this, it will be helpful to those planning the institute if interested law li­ brarians would communicate with professor Mersky at the University of Texas Law Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, Texas 78705. • The program for the inauguration of the newly enlarged Medical Library of W ashing­ ton University will be held in St. Louis on May 3, 1971. A session on medical history will feature talks by William LeFanu, retired, of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Dr. Peter Olch of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. Talks on computers in li­ braries will be presented by Dr. Robert Hayes of UCLA, a former trainee in computer librar­ ianship at the Washington University School of Medicine library. An additional feature will be a slide presentation on the design of libraries by Harry Richman of the architectural firm of Murphy, Downey, Wofford, and Richman. All are welcome. Further details can be obtained from Dr. Estelle Brodman, Librarian and Pro­ fessor of Medical History, Washington Univer­ sity School of Medicine Library, 4580 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110. P U B L IC A T IO N S • San Diego State College Library has pub­ lished two bibliographies available without charge from the Director of Libraries, Malcolm A. Love Library, San Diego State College, San Diego, California 92115: Afro-American Bib­ liography, compiled by Andrew Szabo, 327ρ.; and Literature of Time in the Ernst Zinner Col­ lection, compiled by Gerald Johns, 25p. • The Stanford University Libraries have is­ sued a 180-page manual entitled Book Selection Policies o f the Libraries of Stanford University. I t comprises detailed statements of book selec­ tion and collection-building criteria for all the libraries of the university, organized in accord­ ance with the schools, departments, research institutes, and special or interdepartmental pro­ grams. While it is intended primarily for the use of librarians and faculty a t Stanford, there are a limited number of copies for sale at $10.00 each. Orders should be addressed to Fi­ nancial Office, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305. • An Index to Festschriften in Religion, com­ piled by John L. Sayre and Roberta Hamburg­ er, is an author-subject guide to eighty-four festschriften in the Graduate Seminary Library 101 N A N N O U N C IN G : EX PA N SIO N OF H IS T O R IC A L A B S T R A C T S EW Twentieth Century Abstracts 1 9 1 4 -1 9 7 0 The Editor of Historical Abstracts announces three major changes beginning 1971: 1. C H R O N O L O G Y : Previously limited to 1775-1945. N ow expanded to in­ clude the period up to 1970. 2. SCOPE: To encompass all fields of research relevant to current world prob­ lems: e.g. wars, international relations, and area studies. 3. PERIO D ICALS A B S T R A C T E D : An increase from 1,700 to nearly 2,000 periodicals, to include greater coverage of journals in all the social sciences and humanities. This expansion will result in doubling the number of abstracts published in future volumes. Beginning with Volume 17, Historical Abstracts will appear in two parts: Part A : M O D ERN HISTORY ABSTRACTS W orld History 1775-1914 Part B : T W E N T IE T H CENTURY ABSTRACTS W orld History 1914-1970 Initial response from historians and librarians has been very encouraging: “The extended chronological scope of HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS, to include articles after World W ar II up to 1970, meets an acute need for bibliographical coverage of the events of recent decades. Your high standards in abstracting, editing, and indexing will make this vital new service of inestimable value to the historical profession.” Donald W. Treadgold University of Washington “ … a good idea. Our courses are geared to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries only… This will make HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS more relevant…” Gerald Parres, Librarian Cardinal Glennon College “The addition of contemporary material will be extremely useful in courses in recent history. I also welcome the simultaneous publication of detailed, easy to use indexes with the abstract numbers.” J Spielman Haverford College W e welcome the opportunity to send you a free examination copy. The first issue is scheduled for publication, Spring 1971. American Bibliographical Center—Clio Press Riviera Campus, 2040 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, California 93103 102 of Phillips University. Honorees include such men as Albright, Barth, Bultmann, Cullmann, Hook, Knox, Muilenburg, Pittenger, Rowley, Tillich, and Whitehead. There are 1,531 indi­ vidual entries, all indexed by author and Li­ brary of Congress subject headings. Full biblio­ graphic information is given for each festschrift. Each entry notes the author, tide, the catch­ word which serves to identify the festschrift, and the inclusive page numbers. The index is available from the Graduate Seminary Library, Phillips University, Box 2218, University Sta­ tion, Enid, Oklahoma 73701. Price, $5.30, in­ cluding postage and handling. • An eighty-seven page list describing “Newspapers in Microform” in the Pennsylva­ nia State University libraries has been com­ piled by June R. Morroni, head of die Micro­ forms Section. The list includes current and retrospective holdings in 35mm reel microfilm, microfiche, and microprint. Each newspaper is listed under the latest or best-known form of its title, and cross-references have been used to clarify variant titles. In addition to the full title and the issues available in Pattee Library, in­ formation regarding frequency of publication, date first published, place of publication, and history of each newspaper is given where avail­ able. Following the alphabetical arrangement there is a geographical index and a chrono­ logical index. Copies of the list are available without charge by writing Miss Morroni, Micro­ forms Section, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. ■ ■ News From the Sections ART S U B S E C T IO N The Art Subsection will sponsor an all-day program/tour during the Dallas convention, on Monday, June 21. Departing Dallas at 9:30 a.m. by chartered bus, the group will stop at the Inn of the Six Flags at Arlington, Texas, for a discussion meeting on art materials acquisi­ tion problems, followed by lunch. The tour will then proceed to Fort Worth to the Anron Car­ ter Museum of Western Art, which will serve as a base for informal visits to adjoining mu­ seums, including the Kimbell Art Foundation building under construction, and will return to ROBERT T. M OTTER SCHOLARSHIP The Department of Library Education at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, an­ nounces the second Robert T. Motter Library Science Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. The scholarship was created by the Motter Bookbinding Company in memory of its found­ er, Mr. Robert T. Motter, a longtime friend and aid to libraries and librarians in the state and region. The scholarship committee—comprised of Mrs. Nancy Amis, Mrs. Ann Hoyt, Mrs. Marie D. Chaney, and Dr. Roscoe R o u s e - stated that the purpose of the award is “to en­ courage a promising young person to enter the school library profession.” Candidacy for the scholarship is open to men and women who have at least junior standing; graduate students are encouraged to apply. The award will be made for study in the library education pro­ gram at Oklahoma State University and the re­ cipient will be chosen on the basis of “proven Dallas in the late afternoon. The chartered bus tour is limited to thirty- eight members of the Art Subsection. An addi­ tional twelve persons are welcome to accompa­ ny the group in their own cars (Arlington is eighteen miles from Dallas; Fort Worth is an­ other fifteen miles). Reservations, to be made in advance before June 1, 1971, are $9.00 for the entire program (bus, lunch, and gratuities) or $6.00 for lunch and gratuities only (partici­ pant’s own transportation). Check or money or­ der should be made out to Nancy R. McAdams, P.O. Box 8294, University Station, Austin, Tex­ as 78712. ■■ scholastic ability plus aptitude and potential for growth in the profession of librarianship.” The deadline for applications is May 1, 1971. Ap­ plication forms will be sent to those who re­ quest them although a personal interview in Stillwater is required. Inquiries may be ad­ dressed to Dr. Roscoe Rouse, Head, Depart­ ment of Library Education, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074. ■ ■ ALA HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY SEEKS MANUALS ALA Headquarters Library is updating its collection of college and university library handbooks and manuals on instruction in li­ brary use and will appreciate receiving copies of recent handbooks; please direct them to Headquarters Library, American Library Asso­ ciation, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. ■ ■