ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C &RL News / 399 Publications NOTICES •Africa on Film and V ideotape 1 9 6 1 -1 9 8 1 : A Com pendium o f Reviews, edited by David S. Wiley and others (551 pages, 1982), has been published by Michigan State University’s African Studies Center. The volume includes over 700 detailed film reviews, a total listing of over 2,280 films, a bibli­ ography of filmographies, a directory of distribu­ tors, and a detailed cross-referenced index. Copies are available for $35 plus $3 postage (prepayment required) from the Bookkeeper, African Studies Center, 100 Center for International Programs, M ichigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1035. •Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2: One Year L ater, edited by John T. Corrigan (61 pages, 1982), the sixth booklet in the Catholic Library Associa­ tion Studies in Librarianship Series, is a collection of five papers presented at the 1982 CLA Pre- Convention Institute of the same name. The book­ let provides an overview of the new code and an ac­ count of what cataloging departments in several institutions have done to incorporate changes. Copies may be ordered for $8 (plus $1 postage and handling) from the Catholic Library Association, 461 W. Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041. •Boxes fo r the Preservation o f Rare Books: Their Design an d Construction, compiled and illustrated by Margaret R. Brown (320 pages, 1982), is the result of one of the major objectives of the preserva­ tion program of the Library of Congress, providing practical information on the conservation of li­ brary materials. This looseleaf guide provides de­ tailed instructions and step-by-step line drawings on how to make eight types of book boxes for hous­ ing and protecting volumes that require special at­ tention because of their rarity, value, esthetic qual­ ities, or condition. The book is available for $18 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Gov­ ernment Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (Stock No. 030-000-00124-9). • The Building o f the South Wing o f the H arold B. L ee L ibrary: A Case Study in L ibrary Planning and D ecision M aking, by Anne Kathryn Grout (38 pages, 1982), has been published as Occasional Re­ search Paper number 3 of the Brigham Young Uni­ versity School of Library and Information Sci­ ences. The south wing construction is examined as an example of the planning process in a practical situation. The cost of the booklet is $3 ($3.50 if not prepaid). Orders may be placed with the Brigham Young University School of Library and Informa­ tion Sciences, Provo, UT 84601. •C ollection D escription and Assessment in ARL L ibraries (117 pages, September 1982), SPEC Kit #87, surveys the issues surrounding collection assessment and description, including incentives, ob­ stacles, and approaches to assessment. The kit con­ tains eight examples of collection assessment techniques, with several from Collection Assess­ ment Project final reports. SPEC kits are available by subscription from the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, O ffice of Management Stu- dies/ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. Individual kits may be purchased for $15 (prepayment required) with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Manage­ ment Studies. Library members of ARL receive kits for $7.50. Blackwell/NA Promotes Small Presses Blackwell North America has begun an an­ nual program to promote small publishing houses in the United States. Recently the firm mailed to friends and special customers an end- of-the-year gift book by New Mexican writer Rudolfo A. Anaya called T he M agic o f W ords: R u dolfo A. A naya an d His W ritings. The book, published in a limited run especially for Black- well by the University of New Mexico Press, was intended as a seasonal greeting that would interest librarians as book lovers. In it Anaya tells of his appreciation for librarians in general and his first librarian, Miss Pansy. Last year’s gift book, T he W riter’s Q uotation B ook, edited by James Charlton and published by the Pushcart Press, was Blackwell’s first ven­ ture in introducing their friends and customers to small presses. By ordering 1,000 copies each year of a short run book about books or one re­ lating to librarianship, Blackwell hopes to en­ courage the American small press tradition. Additional copies of Anaya’s book (83 pages, 1982, English and Spanish) are being sold for $7.95 by the University of New Mexico Press. Rudolfo Anaya will be at the Blackwell exhibit booth at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in San An­ tonio all day Monday, January 10, to auto­ graph copies. Librarians who know of a small press that publishes monographs less than 100 pages long relating to the book trade or librarianship may wish to contact John J. Walsdorf, Libraries Ser­ vice Advisor, 6024 S.W . Jean Road, Building G, Lake Oswego, OR 97034; (503) 629-5453. 400 / C&RL News •A Conservation Catalog (38 pages, 1982) has been published by the Western Conservation Con­ gress to identify materials conservation mono­ graphs held by libraries participating in the Con­ gress. This bibliography is divided into nineteen subject headings and includes a comprehensive au­ thor index. Copies are available for $7.50 from William A. Knott, Secretary, Western Conserva­ tion Congress, Jefferson County Public Library, 10200 W. 20th Ave., Lakewood, CO 80215. •The Conservation Survey M anual (67 pages, 1982) has been published by the New York Library Association’s Section on Management of Informa­ tion Resources and Technology. It contains George Cunha’s “What an Institution Can Do to Survey Its Conservation Needs”; a practical application of Cunha’s article by Howard Lowell; “How to Han­ dle Your Deteriorating Book Collections from an Administrative Point of View,” by Bob Schnare; sources of supply and information for the conserva­ tion of library materials; and a bibliography of re­ sources. Copies are available for $7.95 from SMART Publications, 29 Roslyn Drive, RD 1, Ball­ ston Lake, NY 12019. •Corporate Use o f Research Libraries (101 pages, October 1982), SPEC Kit #88, examines the poli­ cies of several ARL and non-ARL libraries provid­ ing service to local corporations and agencies. The kit contains a summary of responses to the SPEC telephone survey, five descriptions of state and uni­ versity programs, six examples of records and sta­ tistics, five documents concerning needs assessment and services, and publicity materials from ten insti­ tutions. SPEC kits are available by subscription from the Systems and Procedures Exchange Cen­ ter, Office of Management Studies/ARL, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20036. Individual kits may be purchased for $15 (prepayment required) with checks made payable to the ARL Office of Management Studies. Library members of ARL receive kits for $7.50. •Document Retrieval: Sources and Services, com­ piled by Georgia L. Finnigan (2d edition, 1982), provides a comprehensive listing of libraries which have developed a document retrieval service for us­ ers beyond the library’s immediate service commu­ nity; information centers of nonprofit organiza­ tions, such as trade associations and research institutes, which have established document re­ trieval services for nonmembers; and commercial enterprises which have created document retrieval services as a business. Suppliers are indexed sepa­ rately by type of material supplied, their location, whether they offer copyright compliance, and/or provide online ordering capabilities, and other fea­ tures. Copies may be ordered for $50 from The In­ formation Store, 140 Second Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105. •A History o f the N ational Library o f M edicine, by Wyndham D. Miles (500 + pages, 1982), traces the institution’s development from the early 19th century through its growth as an international biomedical information center. The book may be purchased for $14 ($17.50 foreign) from the Super­ intendent of Documents, U.S. Government Print­ ing Office, Washington DC 20402 (Stock No. 017- 052-00224-4). •Librarianship: A Definition, by J.G . Meijer (40 pages, September 1982), has been published as Oc­ casional Paper number 155 of the University of Illi­ nois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Meijer’s definition (which finally appears on page 26) incorporates the concept of “coded thoughts recorded in documents.” Available for $3 (single copy, prepaid) from the Publications Of­ fice, GSLIS, University of Illinois, 249 Armory Bldg., 505 E. Armory St., Champaign, IL 61820. •Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and Re­ lated Luminous Phenom ena, by William R. Corliss (248 pages, 1982) is a bibliography and catalog of anomalous atmospheric phenomena that have been reported in scientific and technical literature. Seven general categories of events are described, evaluated, and indexed by subject, time-of-event, place-of-event, author, and source. Copies may be ordered for $11.95 from The Sourcebook Project, P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057. •A M anual fo r the Visual Collections in the H ar­ vard University Archives, by Karen R. Lewis, de­ scribes care and preservation methods for historical photograph collections. Among the topics covered are the handling of prints and negatives, appraisal and accessioning, storage, reproduction, loans, and exhibition requirements. The manual is avail­ able for $6 ($5 for members of the Harvard com­ munity) from the Harvard University Archives, Pusey Library, Cambridge, MA 02138. Travel Much? If you are finding that inflation has cut deeply into your travel budget, you might find some savings tips in a newsletter called The F o o tlo o s e L ib r a r ia n . This informative b i­ monthly publication is the newsletter for a world-wide network of librarians who have found ways to reduce travel expenses by sharing services. An annual subscription of $12 includes Travel Exchange Network d irectories— updated twice a year—containing the names, addresses and services of members. Included is the free option of your own listing in the direc­ tories. A Travel Exchange contact in your destina­ tion city can help you save money by avoiding expensive public accomodations and offer you relevant information about the area that guide books and travel agents might not have. For further information contact The F ootloose L i­ b r a r ia n , P .O . Box 972, Minneapolis, MN 55440. C &RL News / 401 D e c e m b e r 1 9 8 2 •The latest (September) semi-annual microfiche edition of P eriodical Publications in H arvard Sci­ en ce Libraries, which provides both a title and key­ word listing for 13,574 periodicals currently re­ ceived in 21 Harvard science libraries, may now be ordered at $18 per set (prepaid) by sending a check made payable to the Cabot Science Library, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. •Research Libraries: Preserving a Vital N ational Asset, a brochure aimed at business and industry and published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to help research libraries gain support from the private sector, outlines the contributions of research libraries to the business community and the problems they face. Free copies are available from Trisha Lester, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 437 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. •The Resource N etw ork: M ajor Issues Facing Canadian YOU’LL FIND IT IN t h e c l a s s i f i e d s Anyone who pays close attention to classified ad­ vertising for librarian positions will undoubtedly note that the ads differ markedly in style and the amount of information presented. Some ads also seem to turn up everyw here, while others have lim­ ited visibility. In July the ACRL office sent a questionnaire to the 140 libraries participating in the ACRL 100 Project to survey the differences in their advertising policies. One hundred libraries responded, making the percentages easy to tabulate. While not per­ haps a large sample, these libraries are evenly di­ vided among 2-year college libraries, 4-year col­ lege libraries, and university libraries. None of the the libraries surveyed are members of the Associa­ tion of Research Libraries. Some of the facts uncov­ ered by the survey were: •One half (57%) of the sample always placed classified ads in the C hronicle o f H igher E d u ca ­ tion. Local newspapers were second in impor­ tance, followed by C& R L News in which 22 % al­ ways advertised and 31% sometimes advertised. A m erican L ibraries was used regularly by 16% and sometimes by 30 % . •Fifty-three percent mailed position descrip­ tions to library schools. •Three-fourths would make use of the place­ ment service available at ALA or ACRL confer­ ences if the timing were right. •Sixty percent of those responding indicated that they placed ads on telephone joblines, especially those offered by state agencies or library associa­ tions. •A salary range was the most popular way of list­ ing salaries, with over 60 % using this method at least sometimes. Next in frequency was advertising a minimum salary only. Libraries, by Hope E. A. Clement (24 pages, September 1982), is an elaboration of the presenta­ tion to the joint meeting of the Resource Network and the Bibliographic and Communications Net­ work Committees of the Canadian National L i­ brary Advisory Board on May 12, 1981. The docu­ ment is number 3 of the Canadian Network Papers series and is printed in both English and French. It may be obtained free from the Publications Office, National Library of Canada, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4. •R obert B um s: An Inventory o f B um siana in the Jo h n M. Shaw C ollection, compiled by John M. Shaw and Frederick Korn (28 pages, 1982), has been published as Shaw Collection Series number 3 by Florida State University. The publication is available for $4 from Strozier Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, F L 32306. ■ ■ •Thirty-five percent gave no salary, accompa­ nied by a general statement similar to “Salary de­ pendent on qualifications,” at least sometimes. 9 % never listed a salary. The most common explana­ tion for this practice was that it was institutional policy not to advertise salaries. A few libraries listed a salary in publications that required one, but omitted it when they could. •Although some type of salary figure was prefer­ red by the majority of libraries, many stressed that flexibility in the initial offer was highly desirable. One librarian’s reasoning for advertising a mini­ mum salary only was: “It gives applicants a realis­ tic sense of expectations and screens out those with higher salary requirements; we use rough estimates if we must advertise before a budget has been es­ tablished.” •Only 21 % of the respondents listed a starting salary only, 7 % indicated a rough salary estimate (“mid-20s”), and 3 % advertised a maximum salary only. •Advertising policy was different for high-level administrative positions in only 20% of the li­ braries surveyed. - •The great variety of ways in which the affirma­ tive action statement can be given was surprising. Most common was “an equal opportunity em­ ployer” followed by “equal opportunity/affirma­ tive action employer” and “affirmative action/e­ qual opportunity employer.” Others were as long as 41 words (a Southern institution) or as short as “E O E .” •Only 7 % had any written guidelines for com­ posing classified advertisements. Advertising practice in general seems to be dic­ tated by the institutional policy and budget con­ straints. A more detailed copy of the survey results may be obtained by sending $5 to ACRL 100 Pro­ ject, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Institu­ tions participating in the survey are eligible for one free copy. ■ ■