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cals. The stack location is given for each peri­
odical. A limited number of copies are avail­
able a t $2.00 each. Purchase requests should be 
sent to: The Tarlton Law Library, School of

Law, University of Texas, 2500 Red River 
Street, Austin, Texas 78705. Checks should be 
made payable to University of Texas Law 
School Foundation—Library. ■■

News From the Sections
J U N I O R  C O L L E G E  

L IB R A R IE S  S E C T IO N

•  The Junior College Libraries Section of 
the Association of College and Research Li­
braries is sponsoring a preconference “Merging 
Materials: A Total Approach to Instruction,” 
at Detroit, Michigan, June 26–27, 1970. The 
two days of sessions will include panel dis­
cussions and small group sessions. Dr. 8. La­
mar Johnson, Professor of Higher Education, 
University of California, Los Angeles, will be 
the keynote speaker at the banquet. There 
will also be a special workshop on Proposal 
Writing.

Attendance is limited to 250 persons. The 
registration fee is $50.00. For further informa­
tion write to: J. Donald Thomas, Executive 
Secretary, Association of College and Re­
search Libraries, American Library Association, 
50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

LAW  A N D  P O L IT IC A L  
S C IE N C E  S U B S E C T IO N

•  The Preconference Institute “Workshop 
on Legal Bibliography” scheduled for Detroit 
has been cancelled, it was announced by the 
Law and Political Science Subsection of the 
Association of College and Research Libraries. 
The Institute was scheduled for June 26–27, 
1970, at the Wayne State University Law 
School in Detroit prior to the Annual Confer­
ence of the American Library Association. All 
registration fees will be refunded. It will be the 
responsibility of the registrants to cancel their 
housing arrangements.

The Association of College and Research 
Libraries sincerely regrets this inconvenience 
to all members who had made plans to attend.

•  “Government Publications: New Direc­
tions in Content, Dissemination and Control” 
will be the focal point of panel discussions at 
the ALA Conference in Detroit. Scheduled for 
Monday, June 29, at 2:00 p .m ., and sponsored 
by the Subject Specialists Section and its 
Law and Political Science Subsection, the 
panels will touch on government information 
programs at every level, local, state, and fed­

eral, with emphasis on recent developments 
and on association participation in their im­
provement. The meeting will be open to all 
attending the Conference, and the program 
will be designed not only for documents li­
brarians but also for all potential users of gov­
ernment information. If that includes you, plan 
to attend.

R A R E  B O O K S  S E C T IO N

•  “The Private Collector of Books and 
Manuscripts” will be the theme of a precon­
ference sponsored by the Rare Books Section 
of the Association of College and Research 
Libraries at Detroit, Michigan, from June 25– 
27. Planned to provide a much deserved rec­
ognition of the importance of the private col­
lector to the world of books and scholarship, 
it is a natural followup to the program on the 
antiquarian book trade held several years 
ago. Major presentations will be made by 
Charles Feinberg, Charles Blockson, William 
H. Bond, James D. Hart, Harry Moore, Har­
rison Hayford, Frederick Goff, C. E. Frazer 
Clark, James B. Meriwether, Robert Taylor, 
Gordon Banks, Stuart Schimmel, Kenneth Ren­
dell, Karl Ruhe, and Howell Heaney.

Attendance is limited to 150, and the regis­
tration fee is $50.00. Further information and 
applications may be obtained from: J. Donald 
Thomas, Executive Secretary, Association of 
College and Research Libraries, American Li­
brary Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chi­
cago, Illinois 60611.

•  The Committee on Manuscript Collections 
of the Rare Books Section of ACRL will hold 
a program on the “Administration of Manu­
script Collections in Colleges and Universities” 
during the ALA Annual Conference in De­
troit, June 28–July 4.

The program will be held on Monday, June 
29, from 2:00 to 4:00 p .m . The panelists will 
be Mattie Russell, Duke University; Philip P. 
Mason, Wayne State University; Ruth Salis­
bury, University of Pittsburgh; Wayne C. 
Mann, Western Michigan University; and 
James M. Babcock, Alma College, chairman 
of the panel. The program is open to the pub­
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