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News from the Field
ACQUISITIONS

• T h e  U n i v e r s i t y  o f  N e b r a s k a - L i n ­
COLN Libraries recently acquired the Benjamin 
A. Botkin Folklore Collection, consisting of the 
papers of the eminent folklorist B. A. Botkin and 
his personal library of some 8,000 volumes. Also 
included are numerous tape recordings and 
phonograph records, dating from the 1930s, of 
folksongs, popular music, and early blues and 
jazz. These materials were collected over a period 
of fifty years by Botkin in the process of his writ­
ing and editing over twenty collections of Ameri­
can folklore.

The collection reflects the themes of the works 
Botkin published— the West, the Civil War, the 
M ississippi R iver, New England , the Afro- 
American, New York City—and much more. Dr. 
B o tk in ’s m anuscripts, le tte r s , and files add 
another dimension to the collection, providing a 
picture of a leading American folklorist and of the 
growth of folklore studies. His papers include 
scrapbooks, notebooks, and extensive research 
notes for and manuscripts of his published and 
unpublished books and articles. T h ere are 
thousands of letters between Botkin and other 
folklorists and scholars in literatu re, history, 
music, education, and publishing.

In addition to published sources, Botkin drew 
material for his popular books from interviews 
and original recordings he and others collected 
throughout the country. Narratives of former 
slaves interviewed during the Federal Writers’ 
Project in the 1930s, for example, formed the 
basis for his L ay My B urden Down, A Folk His­
tory o f  Slavery (1946).

• The archives of the Chicago Board of Trade 
now are officially housed in the library of the 
U n i v e r s i t y  o f  I l l i n o i s  a t  C h i c a g o  C i r ­
c l e  (UICC).

The historically significant documents, span­
ning the years 1863 through 1925, trace the early 
origins of the exchange and the mercantile de­
velopment of Chicago. O f additional significance 
are materials relating to agriculture, grain market­
ing, and transportation in the nineteenth century.

The Board of Trade collection was acquired in 
1973, according to U IC C  L ibrarian B everly 
Lynch. The archives now have been arranged, 
described, and cataloged and are officially open to 
scholars, researchers, and the public.

The extensive collection of papers (385 linear 
feet) adds to the 5,375 feet of official documents 
already accessible in the U IC C  library. Also 
housed on the near west side campus are collec­
tions of humanitarian Jane Addams, community 
organizer Saul Alinsky, and former State Sen. W. 
Russell Arrington (4th district) and the Century of 
Progress (Chicago, 1933), Hull House Association,

 Chicago Urban League, Illinois Children’s 
Home and Aid Society, Immigrants Protective 
League, and the Juvenile Protective Association, 
among dozens more.

The Chicago Board of Trade collection is di­
vided into seven sections: organizational archives 
(association papers, regulations, and records); 
documents of the board of directors (minutes, rul­
ings, resolutions, and reports); files of executive 
officers, association com m ittees, and special 
committees; statistics; and newspapers.

A catalog outlining the contents of the archives 
is available to libraries, educators, researchers, 
and students. For a copy or information on access 
conditions, duplication, and publication policies 
governing the Chicago Board of Trade archives, 
write or call the Manuscript Collection Library, 
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, P.O. Box 
8198, Chicago, IL  60680; (312) 996-2742.

• A m a rried  co u p le, fo r m any d e ca d es m e m ­
b e rs  o f  M ississip p i’s sm all e m e rg in g  b la ck  m iddle 
class, h ave given th e ir  p erso n a l and b u sin ess p a ­
p e r s  to  M i s s i s s i p p i  S t a t e  U n i v e r s i t y  L i ­
brary.

Robert Weir, who died in 1974 at the age of 
88, was the first black to own and operate a busi­
ness in downtown Starkville, Mississippi. His 
widow, Mrs. Sadye Weir, coauthor of his biog­
raphy, entitled A B la ck  Businessman in W hite 
Mississippi, 1886-1974 (The University Press of 
Mississippi, 1977), has given the late Mr. Weir’s 
papers to Special Collections, Mitchell Memorial 
Library, Mississippi State University.

Mr. Weir’s papers include two linear feet of 
business and personal finance records, poll tax 
receipts, home movies of various events in the 
Weirs’ lives, and assorted pieces of memorabilia.

Mrs. Weir taught schoolchildren for two dec­
ades. L ater, as a home econom ist for the 
Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service, she 
made photographs of many of the people she 
met. These are part of the Weir bequest.

Said Jimmy G. Shoalmire, head of Special Col­
lections, “The Robert Weir papers will form an 
important part of the black history collection we 
are gathering at MSU. The financial records pro­
vide historians with a detailed record of a small, 
black-owned business, and the Extension Service 
photographs taken by Mrs. Weir provide a vivid 
record of rural black life.”

• The Library of F l o r i d a  At l a n t i c  U N I­
V E R SIT Y  has recently acquired a private collec­
tion o f approximately 4 ,6 0 0  volumes rich in 
modem American authors and containing noted 
works in art, drama, music, poetry, literary criti­
cism, and history written and published, for the 
most part, during the 1920s and 1930s. Included 
are signed copies of works by Carl Sandburg and 
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Sherwood Anderson, Theod ore D reiser, and 
William Faulkner. The collection was originally 
assembled by the late Harry Hansen of New York 
during his long and d istingu ished  c a re e r as 
w riter; literary editor for the C h ic a g o  D aily  
News, New Y ork W orld , and W orld -T eleg ram ; 
editor of the W orld Almanac; and publisher.

• A rare edition of Summa T heologiae, the last 
and greatest work o f St. Thomas Aquinas, has 
been  p resen ted  to the C A L IF O R N I A  S T A T E  
U n i v e r s i t y , N O R T H R ID G E , Libraries by their 
Bibliographic Society. Printed in Venice, Italy, 
by Lucantonio Giunta in 1522, the two volumes 
are bound in Italian morocco leather with ara­
besque designs and metal clasps. On the elabo­
rate title page are woodcuts of philosophers by 
Francesco Maironi.

Summa T heologiae, intended to be the sum of 
all learning, deals in the first part with the na­
ture, attributes, and relations of God, including 
the physical universe. The second part concerns 
man, defining a code of Christian ethics.

The rare volumes are the latest additions to the 
CSUN libraries special collections of the work of 
fine printers. Lucantonio Giunta was especially 
known for the publication o f beautifully illus­
trated works.

• The U N IV E R SIT Y  O F  V i r g i n i a  Library has 
acquired the com plete m anuscript o f E rn e s t 
Hemingway’s first important novel, The Sun Also 
R ises, reuniting segments that had been sepa­
rated for fifty years. The library purchased a 
fifteen-page typescript fragment, comprising the 
first two chapters, at the recent Jonathan Good­
win sale in New York. Mrs. Louis Henry Cohn 
presented to the library the remainder of the 
manuscript in memory of h er late husband, a 
noted b ib lio p h ile, rare book d ealer, and 
Hemingway’s first bibliographer.

Joan Crane, the library’s curator of American 
literature, commented that the first two chapters 
were never published. They contain biographical 
backgrounds for the novel’s three main charac­
ters: B rett Ashley, Mike Cam pbell, and Jake 
Barnes. The published work begins with the third 
chapter of the original typescript, which is the 
section presented by Mrs. Cohn. It was used by 
the publisher, Charles Scribn er’s Sons, to set 
type for the book, which “was an immediate 
wildfire success when it was published in 1926.”

In our library, the m anuscript jo in s other 
Hemingway material, especially that in the Clif­
ton Waller Barrett Hemingway collection, which 
includes the manuscript of The G reen  Hills o f  A f­
rica as well as first editions of all of his works, 
many o f them inscribed, and other useful re­
search material.

The manuscript of The Sun Also Rises is avail­
able for research, but publication rights are re­
tained by the author’s widow.

GRANTS
• Jay Solomon, administrator of the U.S. Gen­

eral Services Administration, has announced the

award of federal grants totaling $1,002,324 to 
states, educational in stitu tio n s, historical 
societies, and related organizations by the NA­
T IO N A L  H i s t o r i c a l  P u b l i c a t i o n s  a n d  
R e c o r d s  C o m m i s s i o n .

The awards support projects for the preserva­
tion and use of American historical materials.

The commission approved the membership of a 
state historical record s advisory board for 
Missouri. Missouri joins forty-six other states, as 
well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, in 
having a panel to plan programs and evaluate 
record grant proposals in their jurisdictions. Only 
Maine, Mississippi, Wyoming, and the District of 
Columbia have not yet established required state 
historical records advisory boards.

Grant proposals are accepted directly by the 
commission from applicants in Guam, American 
Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific.

The National Historical Publications and Rec­
ords Commission, with headquarters in Washing­
ton, D .C ., is an adjunct organization of the U.S. 
General Services Administration’s National Ar­
chives and Records Service.

A grant of $28,904 went to Atlanta University 
to accession and beginning arrangement and de­
scription of the records of the Southern Regional 
Council in Atlanta, one of the oldest and most ac­
tive organizations in the Southern civil rights 
movement. These significant records cover major 
economic and social developments in the South 
during the span 1944-66.

Among records program grants totaling 
$304,302 were:

Auburn University Archives, Auburn, Ala.: 
$2,000 to clean and copy for preservation nitrate 
photo negatives in the J. F . Knox Collection. 
Knox was a prominent Birmingham photographer 
from 1910-73.

Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.: $7,494 (match­
ing offer) for a descriptive inventory of the papers 
of Charles Holmes Herty (1867-1938), an early 
twentiety-century chemist involved in research 
and policy in several areas of national and inter­
national importance.

The Archives of Industrial Society at the Uni­
versity of Pittsburgh: $10,333 for the survey and 
appropriate accessioning of district records of the 
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of 
America. The national records of the union are 
already at the University of Pittsburgh.

Among the publications program grants totaling 
$698,022 were:

U niversity o f M assachusetts at Am herst: 
$30,000 for the papers of Lydia Maria Child.

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.: $32,015 
for the microform edition o f the papers of M. 
Carey Thomas.

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.: $54,000 for 
the papers of the Marquis de Lafayette.

The Rhode Island Historical Society, Prov­
idence: $ 5 5 ,0 0 0  for the papers o f Nathanael 
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T he U niversity o f W isconsin , Madison
$116,000 for T he D ocu m en tary H istory o f  th
Ratification o f  the Constitution an d Documentar
H istory o f  the First F e d er a l Elections.

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: $25,05
for the papers of Jane Addams.

University of Tennessee at Nashville: $43,00
for the papers of Andrew Jackson.

The commission also approved grants to the fol
lowing presses for support in publication o
commission-sponsored editions:

University of South Carolina Press, Columbia
$10,000 for volume 7 o f the papers of Henr
Laurens.

Princeton University Press, P rinceton,N .J.:
$2,300 for volume 13 of the papers of Woodro
Wilson.

University Press o f New England, Hanover,
N .H .: $ 9 ,2 4 0  for volume 3 o f the papers o
Daniel Webster.

University of North Carolina Press, Chape
Hill: $9,962 for volume 2 of the papers of Joh
Marshall.

University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville:
$9,100 for volume 3 of the diaries of George
Washington.

Cornell University Press: $10,000 for volume 
of Lafayette in the Age o f  the Am erican Revolu­
tion.

MEETING SUMMARIES
• Photographic materials present even grea

problems for preservation than do books and pa­
pers because of their complex chemical structure
and the absence of research into proper restora­
tion techniques. Only recently have scholars and
librarians begun to realize the full potential of
photographs as documents, and there has been
no training program for photograph conservators. 
To provide a forum for a discussion of these prob­
lems and some of their solutions, the Graphic
Arts Research Center for the Rochester Institute
Technology presented an intensive seminar on 
the preservation and restoration of photographic
images, September 2 6-28. Nancy Schrock was 
one of forty-five museum curators, librarians, and 
photographers to attend.

The seminar explored a wide range of topics, 
including the chemistry of photographic struc­
tures, storage and organization of collections, and 
old and new methods of producing images. The 
conclusions were sobering. The techniques of
early nineteenth-century processes varied so 
greatly that restoration is dangerous. Modern 
color materials are not yet permanent, and many 
materials used for mounting or storing images 
contribute to their deterioration. The most effec­
tive policy for libraries to follow is to conserve 
materials already within their care and thereby 
avoid the extensive restoration problems that 
ensue from neglect. Ideally, new photographs 
should be processed to remove all residual chem­

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 with 3 0  to 5 0  percent relative humidity and 
temperature below 70°. When temperature and 
humidity fluctuate or rise above this range, the 
rate of degradation accelerates. Original Koda­
chrome slides are preferable to duplicates or Ek­
tachrome film because they can last up to fifty 
years if stored in cool darkness.

Reflecting these suggestions, new facilities pro­
posed for the Kennedy Library and the Interna­
tional Museum o f Photography at G eorge 
Eastman House would store valuable materials in 
vaults at temperatures below freezing. Since the 
M IT Libraries are responsible for large collec­
tions of photographic images in the Rotch Visual 
Collections and Historical Collections, as well as 
for microforms throughout the system, these 
principles of conservation are applicable. Fortu­
nately, guides are appearing. C ollection, Use an d  
C a r e  o f  H is t o r ic a l P h o t o g r a p h s , by R obert 
Weinstein and Larry Booth (Nashville: American 
Association for State and Local History, 1 9 7 7 ), 
provides the best overview for historic materials. 
This winter, Henry Wilhelm, will have issued the 
first survey of permanence in color photography, 
Preservation o f  C ontem porary P hotographic Im ­
ages (Grinnel, Iowa: East Street Gallery). Kodak 
is also preparing a booklet on photographic pres­
ervation. As research continues, librarians will be 
better equipped to deal with the photographic 
materials that are becoming an increasingly im­
portant part of their collections.—MIT Notes

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MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS

M a r c h  3 0 - A p r i l  1: William Paterson College 
of New Jersey will offer an institute on C O L LE G E
L i b r a r y  P l a n n i n g  E v a l u a t i o n  i n  a n  E r a  
o f  A c c o u n t a b i l i t y , directed by Robert L. 
Goldberg. The institute has been designed for 
college library directors and their key associates 
who recognize the importance of systematic plan­
ning and the need for administrators to sharpen 
their skills so that they can oversee and manage 
library activities more effectively and efficiently. 
Staff of the institute will include, in addition to 
Goldberg, who is director of library services for 
William Paterson College, Ernest DeProspo, pro­
fessor of library service, Rutgers Graduate School 
of Library Service; Bertram B. Masia, social psy­
chologist; and H erbert R. Kells, professor o f 
higher education, Rutgers University. For further 
information, contact Director of Library Services, 
Sarah Byrd Askew Library, William Paterson Col­
lege of New Jersey, 3 0 0  Pompton Rd., Wayne, 
NJ 0 7 4 7 0 ; (201) 5 9 5 - 2 1 1 3 .

Ap r i l  6-8: The College and Research Section 
of the Kentucky Library Association will hold its 
spring conference and preconference workshop at 
Rough River State Park, Kentucky. The theme of 
the con feren ce on April 7  and 8 is T H E  
Ac a d e m i c  L i b r a r i a n  1 9 8 5  a n d  B e y o n d . A 
preconference Workshop on Library Administra­
tion and Organization will be conducted by Paul 
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more information, contact Dr. David C. Gena­
way, Associate Dean of Libraries, John G.
Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University,
Richmond, KY 40475.

APRIL 8: An IN ST ITU T E ON CONSERVATION
M a n a g e m e n t  i n  L i b r a r i e s  a n d  Ar c h i v e s
will be conducted at Simmons College, Boston,
Massachusetts, by Professor Josephine R. Fang.
For further information contact Dr. Ching-chih
Chen, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs,
School of Library Science, Simmons College, 300
The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115; (617) 738-2224.

May 5: Central New York Library Resources
Council (CENTRO) is sponsoring a workshop on
M a n a g e m e n t , a  B e h a v i o r a l  Ap p r o a c h :
Pr o b l e m  An a l y s i s  a n d  D e c i s i o n  M a k i n g .
Richard Row, manager of employee relations for
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,
will conduct the one-day workshop in Syracuse,
New York.

For information on fees and registration, con­
tact CENTRO Professional Developmental Com­
mittee, Central New York Library Resources
Council, 763 Butternut St., Syracuse, NY 13208;
(315) 478-6080.

M a y  10-13: The C a n a d i a n  A s s o c i a t i o n  
f o r  I n f o r m a t i o n  S c i e n c e  (CAIS) will hold
its 6th Annual Conference at the Four Seasons
Hotel in Montreal (Quebec), Canada.

Three to four hundred information specialists
(computer scientists, linguists, librarians, 
documentalists, etc.), meeting under the theme 
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Step,” will focus their attention on telecommuni­
cation networks, information processing and re­
trieval systems, data bases, and local and long 
distance accessibility of documents.

For further information or application, please 
write to CAIS: Comité de publicité, c/o Daniel 
Carroue, C.P. 539 Succursale, Place Desjardins, 
Montreal, (Quebec) H5B 1B3, or call Daniel Car­
roue, (514) 875-8931, in Montreal.

M ay 12-13: The 2 3 r d  An n u a l  M e e t i n g  o f  
t h e  M i d w e s t  Ac a d e m i c  L i b r a r i a n s  C o n ­
f e r e n c e  will be held at Ball State University, 
Muncie, Indiana. For further information, contact 
Nyal Williams, Music Librarian, Ball State Uni­
versity Library, Muncie, IN 47306; (317) 2 85- 
7356.

M a y  16-19; J u l y  18-21; Nov. 14-17: Dates 
and locales for three LIB R A R Y  MANAGEMENT 
Sk i l l s  I n s t i t u t e s  during 1978 have been an­
nounced by the Office of University Library 
Management Studies (OMS) of the Association of 
Research Libraries. The four-day institutes will 
be held May 16-19 in Chicago, July 18-21 in 
Boston, and November 14-17 in Washington, 
D.C. The exact sites for the sessions will be an­
nounced shortly.

These Management Skills Institutes are 
planned to benefit individuals with administrative 
responsibilities in research and academic libraries 
as well as individuals looking forward to careers 
in library management. Following the pattern of 
earlier institutes, the sessions will use a labora­
tory approach that fosters learning through interaction



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 among participants, contact with train­
ers, and use of readings and instructional exer­
cises that are part of a take-home notebook.

Sessions over the four days will deal with a 
range of managerial issues, including organiza­
tional diagnosis and change; problem definition, 
analysis, and action planning; interpersonal be­
havior and skills; group dynamics; and leadership 
styles.

The institute fee, including materials, is $175. 
Enrollment is limited to forty-five persons. In­
terested librarians are asked to contact the insti­
tute staff at the OMS, Association of Research 
Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N .W ., 
Washington, DC 20036, (202) 232-8656, for fur­
ther information and to reserve a place at any of 
the three sessions.

M ay 17-19: The SEVEN TH  An n u a l  W ORK­
SHOP o n  In s t r u c t i o n  i n  L i b r a r y  U s e  will 
be held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, On­
tario. The topic for this year’s workshop is “Ap­
proaches to Library Instruction: Do You Know 
What Your Colleagues Are Doing?”

The workshop is organized for college and uni­
versity librarians in Ontario and Quebec. Regis­
tration is limited to approximately sixty persons. 
A few applications will be accepted from those 
with an interest in promoting similar orientation 
efforts in other regions.

For further information, contact Tim Schober, 
Reference Department, Morisset Library, Uni­
versity of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario KIN 945.

M ay 17-19: The T h i r d  An n u a l  Ad m i n i s ­
t r a t i v e  D e v e l o p m e n t  P r o g r a m  f o r  L i ­
b r a r y  Ad m i n i s t r a t o r s , conducted by the 
School of Business at the University of South 
Dakota, Vermillion, will concentrate on the fun­
damentals and current problems of “Recruiting, 
Evaluating, and Developing Library Staff.” Sub­
je c t areas will include job analysis and position 
description; attracting, selecting, and organizing 
personnel; interviewing; employee evaluation; 
and employee training and staff development. 
Designed to assist library administrators in im­
proving their managerial effectiveness, the semi­
nar will be valuable to all kinds of library 
administrators—public, academic, special, etc.

The method of instruction includes lectures, 
case analysis, and experimental exercises. The 
program will be structured to the backgrounds 
and experiences of seminar registrants through 
participation in a problem-solving atmosphere.

The fee is $150, which includes instructional 
costs, reading materials and other handouts, 
transportation from and to airlines, and room and 
board. Anyone interested in attending should 
contact the program director, Dr. C. N. Kauf­
man, School of Business, Vermillion, SD 57069; 
(605) 677-5232.

M a y  19: An I n s t i t u t e  o n  C a t a l o g i n g  o f  
N o n - P r i n t  M a t e r i a l s  w ill b e  co n d u c te d  at 
Sim m ons C o lleg e , B o sto n , M assach usetts, by P ro ­
fe s s o r P a tric ia  O y le r. F o r  fu r th e r  in fo rm a tio n ,

contact Dr. Ching-chih Chen, Assistant Dean for 
Academic Affairs, School of Library Science, 
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 
02115; (617) 738-2224.

JU N E  15-20: “ Strategies for Change” is the 
theme of the 3 3 r d  An n u a l  C o n f e r e n c e  o f  
t h e  C a n a d i a n  L i b r a r y  A s s o c i a t i o n . For 
further imformation, contact R. Banks, Chairman, 
CLA ’78— Local Arrangements Committee, Room 
516, Cameron Library, University of Alberta, 
Edmonton, Canada T6G 2J8.

J u n e  1 9 - J u l y  2 1 : The Se v e n t e e n t h  Su m ­
m e r  In s t i t u t e  f o r  A r c h i v a l  St u d i e s  will 
be conducted at the University of Denver.

The institute presents a concentrated study of 
the theory, principles, and applied methodology 
of archival administration of primary documentary 
resources and related manuscript materials. It in­
cludes lectures and discussions by specialists in 
the profession and field trips to nearby archival 
agencies and manuscript depositories.

Projects in applied methodology and practice 
are arranged with area archival institutions and 
agencies, manuscript depositories, historical 
societies, and lib raries. G uest lectu rers are 
utilized for special subject presentations.

The tuition is $410. For details write the in­
structor as follows: Professor Dolores C. Renze, 
Institute for Archival Studies, Department of 
History— 424 MRB, University of Denver, Den­
ver, CO 80210.

MISCELLANY
• The D e p a r t m e n t  o f  H e a l t h , 

E d u c a t i o n  a n d  W e l f a r e  (HEW) will be al­
locating grants to major research libraries deemed 
eligible under a new regulation, which took effect 
in early February. The regulation, designed to 
strengthen library resources and make research 
material more readily available to borrowers, was 
published in the December 28 F ederal Register.

Up to 150 institutions can get library resource 
grants each fiscal year for financing new books 
and other library materials, cataloging library col­
lections, staffing and mailing library material and 
bibliographic information, or distribution through 
electronic or photographic means.

HEW’s criteria for assistance is determined by 
a weighted scale of 110 points that measures the 
applicant’s significance as a major research library 
and the nature of the proposed project.

The libraries have been sorted into ten geo­
graphic areas to “achieve a reasonable regional 
balance,” according to the regulation. Most grants 
will be for one year, but if the project merits con­
tinued funding, the regulation permits financial 
assistance for up to three years.

Ineligible for the program are institutions re­
ceiving Basic Grants of the College Library Re­
sources Program (Section 202 of the Higher Edu­
cation Act) or proposing a project that would be 
eligible for assistance under another federal pro­
gram, such as the Medical Library Assistance Act 
of 1965.



Now availab le for the fir st tim e in book form at …  
combined cumulative indexes to the complete runs of 531 
journals in H istory, Political Science and Sociology

COMBINED
RETROSPECTIVE
INDEX
SETS

The “N E X U S ” computer data base, originally created as a custom bibliographic search service 
in the social sciences, has been acquired by Carrollton Press and is being published for the library 
community in 25 hardcover index volumes.
More than 4 2 0 ,0 0 0  articles from the backfiles of scholarly journals dating back to 1838, were 
indexed by Subject and Author as input to the N E X U S computer file, and later reprogrammed 
by us for composition in folio-size page format.
The availability of the N E X U S  data base in book form will not only result in its more frequent 
and convenient use, but it will also make it available to students and other patrons who could 
not afford to spend their own funds for computer searches.

Single-Source Bibliographic Access Eliminates 
Non-Prodαctive Search Tune

Until now, anyone wishing to make exhaustive retro
spective searches on certain subjects, or even locate
works whose dates of publication were unknown, have
been forced to search year-by-year through numerou
annual volumes issued by several different serial indexing
services or in some cases in the cumulative indexes to
individual journals.

The new Combined Retrospective Index Sets for His
tory, Political Science and Sociology, however, provid
not only the equivalent of long-term combined cumula
tive coverage of several of the indexing services, but also
access to the many earlier issues of those journals which
were being published for many years before the indexing
services started covering them. Moreover, many of th
journals, such as those in the field of "State and Loca
History,” have never been adequately covered by genera
indexing services.

Separate Keyword Indexes Under 585 Categories 
Provide Precise Subject Access 

­ The three sets contain 585 subject categories listed 
 under 101 major subject headings. Because of the size 
 of the data base, and the fact that there are an average 

s of 600 entries for each of the 585 subject categories, we 
 modified the NEXUS programs to produce separate, 
 self-contained keyword indexes to all entries listed under 

each category. As a result, each entry is listed under 
an average of 3.8 keywords, which gives a total of 1.3 ­
million subject entries for the entire collection.e 

­ UPDATING
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 Supplement volume containing both subject and 
 author entries. Beginning with coverage of journals 

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clude entries from the backfiles of other journals l which will be added to the data base. Prices and l delivery dates will be announced.



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subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index 
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cumulative author volumes. Coverage includes more 
than 115,000 articles on such topics as Politics, Public 
Administration and International Relations, from the 
backfiles of 179 English Language journals.

COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE 
INDEXES TO JOURNALS IN

SOCIOLOGY
1895  -  1975DELIVERZ BEGINS APRIL, 1978

From the retrospective collections of 118 English Lan­
guage sociology journals, some 85,000 articles have been 
indexed and their entries interfiled in five casebound 
folio-size cumulative subject volumes, and one cumula­
tive author index volume.



76

For further information on the rule, which im
plements section 107 of the Education Amend
ments of 1976, contact Paul C. Janaske, Divisio
of Library Programs, OLLROE, ROB 3, Rm
3124, 7th and D Streets SW, Washington, D
20202; (202) 245-9687.

• Last fall Hank Epstein announced his resig
nation, effective November 1, as director of th
BALLOTS Center. Stanford University, recogniz
ing the importance of providing strong leadershi
during a time when the BALLOTS Center an
the use of the BALLOTS system are rapidly ex
panding, has appointed Associate Provost Edwar
E. Shaw as interim director.

William F. Miller, vice-president and provos
of the university, comments: “The appointment o
a member of my seminar staff to the interim di
rectorship reflects Stanford s basic commitment t
the development of BALLOTS. The university’
goals are two-fold. First, the university desire
that BALLOTS evolve into a national library au
tomation network focusing upon the uniqu
needs of academic and research libraries an
their universities more generally. Second, be
cause Stanford has close ties with libraries in th
Western United States, BALLOTS should b
made available to all types of libraries in Califor
nia and adjacent states. Shaw will continue a
interim director until such time as the fundamen
tal directions for BALLOTS are established and 
search can begin for a permanent director.”

In addition, the university has appointed Joh
Schroeder as associate director for technical serv

The
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Information Processing (SCIP) and brings strong 
technical and managerial skills to BALLOTS.

Finally, the university has transferred the 
BALLOTS Center out of SCIP, and it will now 
report directly to the provost’s office. This trans­
fer reflects the importance BALLOTS has to the 
university and the university’s commitment to 
guide the BALLOTS Center to independent, 
nonprofit status.

Hank Epstein resigned in order to form a com­
pany in Southern California called Information 
Transform Industries (ITI); initially, the company 
will provide consultation in the area of library au­
tomation and computer systems. He will, how­
ever, retain his ties with Stanford and has been 
engaged by the university to provide technical 
consulting services for a period of time after his 
departure. Many of these services will be di­
rected toward the future growth of 
BALLOTS.—Stanford Library Bulletin

• The Graduate Teaching Fellows in the UNI­
VERSITY OF OREGON Library are one aspect of 
a long-range faculty development program, which 
has as its ultimate goal a library faculty as distin­
guished for its commitment to scholarship and 
formal classroom teaching as it is for the tra­
ditional responsibilities of academic librarians. 
We envision the Graduate Teaching Fellows as 
junior members of the faculty who are at Oregon 
primarily to earn an additional graduate degree 
while continuing to practice their profession. Be­
cause they will be actively involved both as li­
brary faculty and as full-time graduate students, 
we envision them building new bridges into the 
academic community over which will flow a 
two-way stream of intellectual traffic. Some of 
them will also be involved in the library’s 
classroom teaching program, which at the mo­
ment consists of four three-hour courses, which 
can generally be described as follows: (1) intro­
duction to the use of a research library, (2) his­
tory of the book (graduate or undergraduate op­
tion), (3) introduction to archives (graduate or 
undergraduate option), and (4) an all-purpose 
seminar for the development of new courses.—H. 
William Axford, Univ. o f  Oregon Librarian ■■

Reference Service Statistics

The ALA LAD LOMS Committee on 
Statistics for Reference Service would ap­
preciate a copy of any publication in which 
you have used statistics to promote reference 
service (e.g., brochures, annual reports, post­
ers, press releases, etc.). A program on this 
subject is planned for the 1978 ALA Annual 
Conference. Send to Bruce Miller, Adminis­
trator Assistant, Northwestern University Li­
brary, Evanston, IL 60201.