ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 28 missioner in the Annual Program and Expend­ iture Report for Title II-A and such finan­ cial records must be maintained as necessary to substantiate costs incurred in the event of a Federal fiscal audit. 4. The above amendment is effective as of October 11, 1972. Title II-A grant recipients in Fiscal Year 1972 may now, if they so deter­ mine, utilize grant funds for these purposes un­ der the foregoing conditions. 5. Any further questions in this regard are to be directed to: Frank A. Stevens, acting pro­ gram manager. Approved: Burton E. Lamkin, associate commissioner, Bureau of Libraries and Learn­ ing Resources. ■ ■ News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A n e w c o lle c tio n o f o v e r 19,000 p a g e s o d o c u m e n ts on V ie tn a m h a s b e e n e s ta b lis h e d a t th e P ic k ie r M e m o ria l L ib r a r y of N o r t h e a s t M isso u ri St a t e U n iv e r sit y in K irksville, M is­ souri, a n d a t th e Q u in c y C o l l e g e lib ra ry in Q u in c y , Illinois, th ro u g h th e c o o p e ra tio n o f th e staff a n d fa c u lty o f b o t h colleges. The d o c u ­ m e n ts w e re p ro v id e d b y R. E. F la s p o h le r a n d W . R. A n d re w s, b o th o f w h o m t a u g h t a t N o rth ­ e a s t M issouri S ta te as w e ll as se rv in g as m e m ­ b e rs of th e U n ite d S ta te s M ission in V ie tn a m . The staff of th e Q u in c y C o lle g e lib ra ry r e d u c e d th e d o c u m e n ts to 350 m ic ro fich e c a rd s a n d as­ siste d in th e c a ta lo g in g o f th e m a te ria l. As m e m b e rs of th e M ississippi V a lle y C o o p e ra tiv e L ib ra ry S ervice, b o th c o lleges w ill m a in ta in c o m p le te copies o f th e colle ctio n . The collection itself offers a unique trilateral view of the social, political, and military aspects of the war in Vietnam from I960 to 1971, for it consists of material generated by the Repub­ lic of Vietnam, the Vietnamese Communist party, and the United States government. From the South Vietnamese, documents have been gathered which provide a picture of the war from the viewpoint of various regional officials as well as South Vietnamese plans regarding the “pacification” of areas held by the Commu­ nist insurgents. On the Communist side, the collection con­ tains an extensive number of ver batim interro­ gations of prisoners and defectors who were re­ sponsible for carrying out Communist party policies in the rural villages of the Mekong Delta, the most populous area of South Viet­ nam. Another section is comprised of literal English translations of the broadcasts of Radio Hanoi and Liberation Radio from 1969 to 1971. Captured Communist documents which de­ scribe the aims and tactics of the party in the Cambodian sanctuaries are also included. Most of the American documents deal with the American appraisal of the war effort in Vietnam and analyses of the activities of the Communist revolutionary movement in that country. Many of these documents are field re­ ports which deal quite objectively with the sit­ uation in various parts of rural South Vietnam. Generally, the collection contains documents f which were born, not in Saigon, Hanoi, or Washington, b u t at the cutting edge of the war in Vietnam’s rice-paddies, jungle, and moun­ tains—documents w ritten by men on both sides whose task it was to implement the instructions of their respective political leaders. The in­ sights which may be gained from research in this collection are unlimited and, as yet, virtual­ ly unexplored. For details regarding the collec­ tion of Vietnamese documents, address queries to George N. Hartje, Director of Libraries, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO 63501. • The Montrose J. Moses collection of book and papers has been given to the Perkins Li­ brary of D u k e U n i v e r s i t y . Presented by th e widow, Mrs. Montrose J. Moses, and her two sons, D r . Montrose J. Moses, Jr. and Lawrence Moses, the collection of the distinguished au­ thor and drama critic, contains more than three thousand volumes and twenty thousand manu­ scripts. Mr. Moses, who died in 1934, was well acquainted with most of the distinguished men and women of the theater and with the creative writers of the first third of this century. While the principal strength of his collection is on the theater, it contains first editions and correspondence of such contemporary writers as Eugene O’Neill, Edna Ferber, Louis Brom­ field, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, Thorn­ ton Wilder, Christopher Morley, Stark Young, Gertrude Stein, and Maxwell Anderson. The theater personalities represented in the collec­ tion include E thel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Charles and Daniel Frohman, David Belasco, and others. In addition to Moses’ own books and correspondence, the collection contains numerous notebooks of clippings and research notes used by Moses in preparing his books, scrap books, theater programs, and similar ma­ terial which document the history of the Amer­ ican stage during this period. Letters with his publishers, with newspaper editors, and with editors of magazines and periodicals for which Moses wrote depict the history of several pub­ lishing houses and periodicals. The collection s 29 further illustrates changes in theatrical and lit­ erary taste brought about by W orld W ar I, the Depression, and the social revolution of the Twenties. • T e m p l e U n i v e r s i t y libraries has an­ nounced two recent gifts of science fiction and the establishment of the D avid Charles Paskow Science Fiction Collection as a separate unit of the Special Collections Department for the housing, acquisition, and reference and research guidance of science fiction. The collection is named for the late Temple alumnus whose library was received as a gift in October 1972 and forms the core of the holdings. Close to 5,000 hardback and paper­ back novels and anthologies, science fiction magazines, records, fanzines, and reference works, including related fantasy, comprised the Paskow library with particular strength be­ tween 1950 and 1970. Mr. Paskow (w ith Mr. John Osborne) will have a posthumous anthol­ ogy of science fiction for high school students published in 1973 by Addison-Wesley. In November Temple was offered and ac­ cepted the papers of Ben Bova, Temple ’54, current editor of Analog; Science Fiction, Sci­ ence Fact one of the leading science fiction pe­ riodicals. In addition to his short stories and sci­ ence articles, Mr. Bova has published at the least nineteen books since 1959 including his nonfiction The Fourth State o f Matter which was one of the top 100 science books of the year 1971 as selected by the American Library Association. His papers will be maintained as part of Paskow Science Fiction Collection. Science fiction has for years either been ig­ nored or the object of criticism by academi­ cians; in more recent years there has been grow­ ing recognition of the subject on academic in­ stitutions. Science fiction has been found being discussed in the English classes (Temple has two science fiction courses); professors in vari­ ous fields have been writing and publishing science fiction, openly or under pseudonyms; and many other major institutions libraries have in the last decade been developing their book and manuscript science fiction collections. A W A R D S A N D GI FTS • Nominations for the 1973 Robert B. Downs Award for an outstanding contribution to intellectual freedom in libraries are now be­ ing accepted by the Graduate School of Library Science, U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s a t U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n . The award was established in 1968 to honor Downs, dean of library administration at Illi­ nois, on the anniversary of his twenty-five years with the university. The $500 award will be presented at a meet­ ing of UIUC library school alumni during the annual convention of the American Library As­ sociation. The convention will be held June 24-30 in Las Vegas. Herbert Goldhor, director of the UIUC Graduate School of Library Science, said the award may go to a library board member, a nonprofessional staff member, a professional li­ brarian, a government official, or anyone who has worked to further intellectual freedom and the cause of truth in any type of library. Past award winners have included LeRoy Charles Merritt, dean of the School of Librari­ anship, University of Oregon, 1969; Orrin Dow, librarian w ith the Farmingdale, New York, Public Library, 1970; The President’s Commis­ sion on Obscenity and Pornography, 1971; and John T. Carey, media librarian, St. Mary’s Col­ lege of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, 1972. Faculty of the UIUC Graduate School of Li­ brary Science will select the winner or may de­ cide no one qualifies, Goldhor said. The award need not be made every year, he said. Letters of nomination will be considered from any source from now until April 15, 1973, and should be sent to Goldhor at the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illi­ nois, Urbana, IL 61801. G R A N T S • The Office of University Library Studies within the A s s o c i a t i o n o f R e s e a r c h L i ­ b r a r i e s has received a new three-year grant of $210,505 from the Council on Library Re­ sources to carry forward its program of strengthening and enhancing the management capability of research and large academic li­ braries. Originally funded by CLR in 1970 following a council-financed study by Booz, Allen & Ham­ ilton, Inc., Problems in University Library Management, the office and the study were jointly sponsored by the American Council on Education and ARL. Duane Webster has served as director of the office from the outset. The continuing need for sound management of university research libraries’ increasingly val­ uable and expensive-to-operate resources is ver­ ified statistically in ARL’s recently published Academic Library Statistics 1971-72. ARL’s seventy-eight member libraries listed spent $260,515,355 last year, ranging from a high of $9,965,900 to a low of $1,210,604. Major accomplishments of the Office of Uni­ versity Library Studies during its first two years included the development of a management re­ view and analysis program for interested li­ braries, participation in a major study of the or­ ganization and staffing of the Columbia Uni­ versity libraries, and the creation of a plan for the further development of the office itself. The Management Review and Analysis pro­ 30 gram is still in the developmental stage b u t of­ fers a unique opportunity to individual libraries to appraise their own programs. Refinement of this activity is one of four major goals of the office during the next three years. Others are: the collection and dissemination of information which can be helpful to a large number of li­ braries; the development of management ex­ pertise among future librarians; and consulta­ tion services to individual and groups of li­ braries. Chief advisory group to the Office of Uni­ versity Library Management Studies is the ARL Commission on Management comprised of Warren J. Haas, vice-president and university librarian, Columbia University; Ben Bowman, director, University of Rochester libraries; and Richard DeGennaro, director, University of Pennsylvania libraries. • A grant of $28,661 to study the knowl­ edge and information needs of the disadvan­ taged has been awarded D r e x e l U n i v e r s i t y ’s Graduate School of Library Science. The proj­ ect will review existing studies on the subject as related to the elderly, poor, physically handi­ capped, undereducated, unemployed, and oth­ erwise deprived groups. The final product will consist of a series of bibliographies and a “state of the art” essay synthesizing the topic. Partici­ pating in the study will be Dr. Thomas Chil­ ders, project director, Dean Guy Garrison, proj­ ect advisor; Ms. Joyce Post, bibliographic asso­ ciate; and several graduate students. The Unit­ ed States Office of Education awarded the grant. • A stu d y to d e te rm in e th e n e e d , a c c e p ta ­ b ility , a n d p o te n tia l services o f a C o o p e rativ e B ib lio g ra p h ic C e n te r fo r In d ia n a lib ra ries has b e e n in itia te d b y th e I n d ia n a S t a t e L ibrary u n d e r a L ib ra ry Services a n d C o n stru c tio n A ct g ra n t from th e U n ite d S ta te s Office o f E d u c a ­ tion, a c c o rd in g to an a n n o u n c e m e n t m a d e b y M arcelle F o o te , d ire c to r of th e I n d ia n a S ta te L ib ra ry . B a rb a ra E v an s M a rk u so n w ill serve as p ro je c t d irector. The decision to develop a Cooperative Bib­ liographic Center would have enormous impact on the future of library service in the state. The in-depth study to be undertaken will consider functions to be performed, types of service de­ sired, potential users, volume of activity (initial and projected), equipment and physical re­ quirements, administration and staffing require­ ments, funding requirements (initial and oper­ ating costs), cost/benefit analysis, and relation­ ship to other bibliographic systems. I f e stab lish e d , th e c o m p u te r-b a se d service c e n te r w o u ld p ro v id e m ore econom ical a n d effi­ c ie n t use o f sta te -w id e lib ra ry resources, re d u c e risin g lib ra ry costs, a n d b e c a p a b le o f e x p a n ­ sion to serve a w id e -ra n g e of fu n c tio n s su c h as cataloging, interlibrary loan, search services, ac­ quisitions, and serials controls. It would also be designed to allow for compatibility with other existing or planned state, regional, and national library networks. Initial planning for the project was done by a committee of representatives from the four state universities and the state library. In con­ trast to many studies in other states, the Indi­ ana study will include all types of libraries and will be conducted by a fourteen-member Task Force composed of representatives from school, special, public, and academic libraries. • The computer-based Criminal Justice Ref­ erence Library at the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s School of Law in Austin has received a ten- month continuation grant of $67,285 from the Texas Criminal Justice Council. Funding will continue through June 1973. A Selective Dissemination of Information ( S D I) program developed during the past year has greatly increased the library’s reference capabilities. All material received in the library is abstracted and indexed to reflect topical con­ tent. The computerized data base can be used to provide periodic notification of acquisitions to users on the basis of previously stored user profiles, answers to specific reference questions in a matter of seconds, and bibliographies on any specified topic in minutes. To supply the information needs of Texas law enforcement officials, correctional agency personnel, district attorneys, public defender offices, and any individual wanting information in the area of criminal justice, the library adds approximately 300 titles a month to the exist­ ing collection of over 6,000 monographs and 1,000 periodical titles. Designed to supplement and enhance the basic working collection of criminal law materi­ als currently available, the collection is com­ posed of both trade books and journals and “fugitive” materials not available through regu­ lar publishing channels. According to supervis­ ing librarian Donald Dunn, these latter materi­ als include annual reports, statistical studies, police training manuals, research monographs, instructional course materials for criminal jus­ tice training, probation office reports, depart­ mental rules and regulations, state and local criminal justice plans, proposed criminal codes, law enforcement and criminal justice periodi­ cals, crime commission studies, and individual research and unpublished papers. Further information can be obtained by con­ tacting Donald J. Dunn, Supervising Librarian, Criminal Justice Reference Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. (512 ) 471-3238. M E E T I N G S M a r c h 26-27: Florida Atlantic University 31 will host the International Conference on Man­ agement Problems in Serial Work on March 26-27, 1973. Among the topics explored will be: subscription agency services, periodical banks, computer applications, copyright prob­ lems, the future of scholarly journals, and many others. The speakers represent experts from major trend-setting institutions. Major subscrip­ tion agencies and dealers will be represented from the United States and abroad. Early res­ ervations are suggested. For brochure and reg­ istration form write to: Mr. Peter Spyers-Duran, Director of Libraries, Florida Atlantic Univer­ sity, Boca Raton, FL 33432. (305)' 395-5100, ext. 2448. A p r i l 9-10: Information retrieval systems and libraries are faced with the problems of the increasing cost of covering the literature of interest to their users. A s the literature pro­ liferates, many organizations face the lack of professionals to cope with its organization for use (especially in a machine-readable form). One partial solution is to utilize available ser­ vices which provide already processed ma­ chine-readable input covering some subject lit­ erature for subsequent individual utilization by information retrieval systems and libraries. The problems of selection, utilization, and especially integration of the available machine-readable services into individual systems and libraries are to be explored in this seminar. The two-day seminar is organized by the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services and the host is the Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The seminar will be held at Drexel Activities Center on April 9 and 10, 1973. The cost of the two-day seminar is $100 ($75 for Federation member service staffs). The registration fee includes a special kit being prepared for the course. Full details from the National Federation of Abstracting and Index­ ing Services, 3401 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104; and from Dr. Barbara Flood, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University, Rush Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104. F ur­ ther details are in the January News. A p r i l 9-10: The Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago will hold its Thirty-sixth Annual Conference at the Center for Continuing Education (1307 E. 60th St., Chicago, Illinois). The topic will be Manage­ ment Education: Implications for Libraries and Library Schools. Speakers at the conference will include lead­ ers in various aspects of management educa­ tion. The co-directors of the conference are Her­ man H. Fussier, professor, Graduate Library School, the University of Chicago; John E. Jeuck, Robert Law Professor, Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago; and Don R. Swanson, professor, Graduate Library School, the University of Chicago. Registration will be held April 9 from 8:30 a .m . to 9:30 a .m ., Center for Continuing E du­ cation, 1307 E. 60th St., Chicago. A p r i l 16-17: Pressure groups and would-be censors who try to tell libraries w hat books and other library materials are fit for public con­ sumption will be pu t in the spotlight at a na­ tional meeting in Chicago, April 16 and 17, 1973. A representative group of librarians and re­ source persons will participate in a national prototype workshop on intellectual freedom sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Com­ mittee of the American Library Association. The workshop is funded by the annual J. Mor­ ris Jones-World Book Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award, of which the International Freedom Committee was a winner this year. Participation will be limited—the IFC will sponsor the attendance of one representative from each state Intellectual Freedom Commit­ tee (hopefully, the committee chairman). In addition, each state library association has been asked to send one representative—preferably another committee member or perhaps a li­ brary trustee. The goal of the workshop is to prepare each participant to plan and carry out a similar workshop on the state or regional level. To this end, a total educational program is planned. More complete information is to be found in the January News. A p r i l 18: A Legal Bibliography Institute, sponsored by the Southwestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 1973, at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Southwestern Chapter covers the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisi­ ana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The 1972 institute on the Library of Congress Classification Scheme drew partici­ pants from the nine member states, California, the District of Columbia, Iowa, and Kentucky. The 1973 institute has two aims: to act as a refresher course for experienced practicing li­ brarians and as an introduction to the standard information tools and their use for either li­ brarians beginning in the legal field or those in the legal field wanting to improve their infor­ mation and research skills, for example, legal researchers and legal secretaries. The institute includes both federal and state materials. For registration or further information con­ tact: Mrs. Isabella Hopkins, Criminal Justice Reference Library, 2500 Red River, Austin, TX 78705. (512 ) 471-3238. 32 A p r i l 19: “Media Integration in Academic Libraries” is the subject of the 1973 Institute of the Library Association of the City Univer­ sity of New York. To be held at the Statler Hil­ ton Hotel in New York City on April 19, the Institute, open to librarians, interested students, faculty, and administrators, will feature presen­ tations by James F. Holly, dean of library ser­ vices, the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; Dr. Estelle Jussim, assistant pro­ fessor of library services, Simmons College, School of Library Science; Mrs. Shirley Lewis, director of library services, Cooperative Book Centre of Canada, Ltd., Toronto, Canada; and Richard L. Ducote, dean of learning resources, Learning Resources Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. For further information, please get in touch with Betty Seifert, City College Library, 135th St. and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031. Phone: (212) 621-2268. A p r i l 26-27: The Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Libraries Association will sponsor a re­ gional workshop on the subject of dealing with translations in libraries. The workshop will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 26-27, 1973. Topics to be covered will include the use of bibliographic tools in locating exist­ ing translations, ordering procedures for both H o w much can a su bscription agen cy save y o u r lib r a r y ? Consider how long it takes to order one subscription, how much it costs to process one invoice for payment and send one check. Es­ timates run from $10.00 to $18.00 for each order. Multiply by the number of subscriptions your li­ brary orders, and see how much you’ll save by sending one order and one check for all your periodi­ cals to F. W. Faxon Co. Send for our fre e desc rip tiv e brochure and annual Librarians’ Guide listing more than 50,000 domestic and foreign periodicals. L ib ra ry b u siness is o u r o n ly b u s in e s s – s in c e 1886. F.W 15 S . o F u A th X we O st N Pa C rk o . IN C . Westwood, Mass. 02090 Telephone : (800) 225-7894 (Toll Free) translated material and foreign language source material, and procedures for having original translations performed. Emphasis will be on the subject areas of science and technology. Addi­ tional information may be obtained from: Mrs. Ann H. Beyer, Reference Librarian, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, Los Ala­ mos, NM 87544. (505 ) 667-4175. A p r i l 29-M ay 3, 1973: Port-of-Spain, Trin­ idad, West Indies will be the site of the Eighteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, April 29-May 3, 1973. The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, will be cohosts for the seminar. Registration in the Eighteenth Seminar is $15.00 for members of SALALM and $25.00 for nonmembers. The conference coordinator is Ms. Irma Hannays, Librarian, Industrial De­ velopment Corporation, Salvatori Building, P.O. Box 949, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Information on the content of the program and working pa­ pers may be procured from Donald F. Wisdom, Serial Division, Library of Congress, Washing­ ton, DC 20540. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Ms. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Organization of American States, Washington, DC 20006. Consult the November News for further details. M a y 3-4: A practical approach to implement­ ing library orientation will be the central theme for the Third Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries to be held on Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4, 1973, at Eastern Michigan University. The program will have a workshop format with group discus­ sions of topics such as: beginning a new pro­ gram, developing faculty cooperation, designing new methods and materials, and evaluating li­ brary instruction. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents are encouraged to attend. Registration will close on April 13 and will be limited to seventy-five persons. For further information, please contact: Sul H. Lee, Acting Director of the Library, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsi- lanti, MI 48197. M a y 3-4, 1973: Changing Patterns in In ­ formation Retrieval will be the theme of the tenth annual National Information Retrieval Colloquium, to be held May 3 and 4, 1973, at the Independence Mall Holiday Inn, 400 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19106. Chairwoman of the tenth NIRC is Carol Fe- nichel, Auerbach Associates. For program and registration information, contact Susan Nick- leach, P.O. Box 15847, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 561-4100. The December N ews con­ tains further details. 15,000 annual increase now. 20,000 annual increase in the next 30 years. That’s a conserv­ ative estimate of the rate of increase in new serials—worldwide— that libraries have to cope with. Overwhelmed? Consult S e r i a l P u b l i c a t i o n s Their Place and Treatm ent in L ib ra rie s S e c o n d E d i t i o n , RevisedAndrew D. Osborn T h e most comprehensive guide to the acquisition, processing, cataloging, and servicing of serial publications. 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NAM E______________________________________________ POSITION.___________________________________________ LIB R A R Y ____________________________________________ A D D R ESS____________________________________________ CITY________________STATE______________Z IP __________ Institute for Scientific Information 325 C h e s tn u t S tre e t, P h ila d e lp h ia , Pa. 19106, USA T e l: (215) 923-3300 C a b le : S C IN FO , T e le x : 84-5305 © 1972 ISI 35 M a y 4-5: The Ohio Valley Group of Techni­ cal Service Librarians will hold their annual meeting May 4 and 5, 1973, at Purdue Univer­ sity, West Lafayette, Indiana. M a y 10-12: The fourth annual seminar on “Management Concepts for Librarians,” spon­ sored by the graduate School of Business Ad­ ministration and Washington University li­ braries will be held May 10, 11, 12, 1973, at Bromwoods, the residential conference center of Washington University, located sixty miles southwest of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. Registration is limited to thirty-five on a first-come first-served basis. The $145 fee covers all instructional costs, materials, meals, and lodging while at Bromwoods. For further in­ formation please telephone William H. Kurth, Washington University Librarian, 314-863- 0100, extension 4523 or Mrs. Marilyn Pryor, The School of Continuing Education, Washing­ ton University, extension 4261. The January News offers more information. M a y 18-19, 1973: The Midwest Academic Librarians Conference ( MALC) will hold its eighteenth annual meeting on May 18 and 19 at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. The theme for the conference is, “The Library’s Role in the Teaching Process,” and will include discussion meetings on the college and university settings for AV materials, archives, museums, coopera­ tional activities, etc. MALC is a nonstructured and informal gath­ ering of professional academic librarians who meet annually on the site of a newly construct­ ed building without dues or membership fees. All librarians are welcome. Conference local arrangements chairman is Mr. Oivind Hovde, Librarian, Luther College, Decorah, IA 52101. J u l y 15-27, 1973: The School of Library and Information Services, University of Mary­ land, is planning the seventh annual Library Administrators Development Program to be held July 15-27, 1973. Dr. John Rizzo, profes­ sor of management at Western Michigan Uni­ versity, will serve as the director. Consult the December News for more complete information. M I S C E L L A N Y • T h e A m e ric an S ociety for In fo rm a tio S cience (A S IS ) h a s a n n o u n c e d t h a t th e N a t io n a l A u x iliary P u b l ic a t io n s Ser v ic e ( N A P S ) w ill n o w b e o p e ra te d fo r A SIS b y M icrofiche P u b lic a tio n s , a division of M icro­ fiche System s C o rp o ra tio n , of N e w York. M SC re p la c e s C C M In fo rm a tio n C o rp o ra tio n in th is role. Founded in 1937, NAPS provides a reposi­ tory for, and furnishes on-demand copies of ma­ n terials which are adjuncts to papers published in scholarly or technical journals, but which would require too many journal pages to pub­ lish in extenso. The editor or publisher supplies NAPS with a copy of the auxiliary material, which is then converted to microfiche. Copies of the micro­ fiche or hard copy paper prints may be ordered by the public from NAPS at modest cost. Each published article for which auxiliary tables, photos, graphs, charts, computer printouts, bib­ liographies, etc., have been deposited in NAPS carries a footnote indicating the NAPS number and the availability of that material through the service. Most important, authors an d /o r edi­ tors have certain knowledge that such material will be available to scholars and others having a need for it in the future. Requests for copies need only reference the NAPS number, and the form of output (hard copy or fiche) required and should be accom­ panied by payment for the copies requested. A modest deposit fee covers the cost of as­ signing a NAPS identification number, prepara­ tion of the microfiche master and complimen­ tary microfiche copies of the material sent to the contributing editor. Deposits may be made by editors or directors of participating journals or associations. At the present time, approxi­ mately 200 domestic and 30 foreign journals contribute to this repository. They represent a wide array of scholarly publications in the life sciences, physical sciences, and behavioral sci­ ences. Although NAPS is designed to be a reposi­ tory primarily for supplementary materials to published journal articles, other types of de­ posits are possible. For example, full-length works could be deposited with NAPS, provided that the depositor publishes an abstract of each deposited work or in some other way publishes the availability of the deposited materials. Requests for copies and details on making deposits should be directed to: ASIS/NAPS, c/o Microfiche Publications, 305 E. 46th St., New York, NY 10017. • The Contemporary Culture Center of Samuel Paley Library of Temple University has one of the leading collections of alternative press ephemera in the country. The collection includes small press materials from publishers outside of the dominant cultural mainstream, and contains roughly 10,000 pamphlets, broad­ sides and flyers, 800 small press monographs ( mostly poetry) ‚ underground comics, and 1,400 periodicals and newspapers. The concen­ tration of the materials is from the mid-sixties to the present, but some of the materials date as early as the 1950s. One of the few collec­ tions of its kind, the center is part of an infor­ mation and duplicates exchange network of fifteen libraries which are seriously collecting CANADIAN Buildings o f P arlia m e n t — O tta w a , 1876 The n arrativ e o f C an ad ian self g o vernm ent is a vital p a rt o f the legislative h istory o f W estern dem ocracies. A s such, it should be available in all libraries serving serious academ ic p ro g ram s in H istory an d G ov ern m en t. N o t only is it a basic resource fo r studying th e C a n ad ian p ast, it also offers u n iq u e perspectives on the c o n cu rren t histories o f E ngland, and the U n ite d States. T h e c o m p l e t e d u a l - th e s e th re e maj S e t I Parliamentary Proceedings of the United Province of Canada (1841-1866) 64 reels, 15 index volumes A. Journals o f the Legislative A ssem bly o f the United Province o f Canada plus 73 ap­ pendices (1841-1866) — Records the daily transactions of the Assembly with appendices including reports o f committees, comm is­ sions, departments, and institutions. Two cumulative indexes cover this period. 42 reels, 2 index volumes B. Journals o f the Legislative Council o f the U nited Province o f Canada plus appendices (1841-1866) — A record o f the daily tran s­ actions of the Council followed by ap­ pendices th at include reports of committees and other m atters. Sessional Indexes were extracted fo r reprinting. 10 reels, 13 index volumes C. Sessional Papers o f the United Province o f Canada (1860-1866) — Superceded appen­ dices to the above Journals. Published jointly by the Assembly and the Council, the Papers record reports of commissions, departm ents and institutions. Indexed in same volumes with Journals. 12 reels, 13 index volumes (same volumes in IB) Set II Parliamentary Proceedings of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1970) 397 reels, 93 index volumes A. Hansard Debates o f the House o f C om m ons o f the D om inion o f Canada (1875-1970) — Reports the debates, messages of the G ov­ ernor-G eneral and lists of the mem bers and comm ittees of the House. Sessional Indexes were reprinted. 230 reels, 52 index volumes B. Journals o f the House o f C om m ons o f the D om inion o f Canada (1867-1970) — A record of the daily transactions of the House, proclam ations, Speeches from the Throne and reports o f committees. Five cumulative index volumes cover the entire period. 79 reels, 5 index volumes C. Debates o f the Senate o f the D om inion o f Canada (1871-1970) — Senate debates are reported and the Speeches from the Throne and the replies are included. Sessional In ­ dexes were extracted fo r reprinting. 47 reels, 18 index volumes D. Journals o f the Senate o f the D om inion o f Canada (1867-1970) — Includes the daily transactions of the Senate, a list o f the stand­ ing committees since 1902 and a list of the bills to be assented to fo r the session. Ses­ sional Indexes were reprinted. 41 reels, 18 index volumes PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS & SESSIONAL PAPERS 1841-1970 Now in cooperation with the Library of Parliament, the U.S. Historical Documents Institute offers the complete chronicle of 130 years of Canadian Legislative History. . . . all in one convenient dual-media reference set. ON MICROFILM T h e full tex t of the Journals, D eb a tes, an d Ses­ sional Papers of b o th houses of P arlia m en t on 771 reels of 35m m microfilm. IN BOUND VOLUMES T h e original cum ulative an d sessional indexes to th e P roceed in gs an d th e Sessional Papers, rep rin te d fo r th e first tim e in 133 hard co v er volumes. media c o ll e c t i o n is b r o k e n d o w n i n to or• s e l f - c o n t a i n e d r e f e re n c e s e t s : S e t I I I Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada (1867-1925) 310 reels, 25 index volumes Continues the Sessional Papers pre­ vious to Confederation and includes reports of commissions, depart­ ments, and institutions. General Indexes to the Papers are included with those of the Journals of the House of Commons. Other lists and refrence tools have been extracted and reprinted. The United States Historical Documents Institute, Inc. 1647 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20007 Please record our ord er fo r the dual m edia editions listed below: □ The entire collection of Canadian Parliamentary Proceedings and Sessional Papers, 1841-1970 in 771 reels of 35mm microfilm plus 133 hardcover index volumes, at the prepublication price of $15,460 (a savings of $1,027 off the price of the individual editions listed below). □ Set I, 64 reels of 35mm film plus 15 hardcover index volumes, $1,522. □ Set II, 397 reels of 35mm microfilm plus 93 hardcover index volumes, $9,495. □ Set III, 310 reels of 35mm microfilm plus 20 hardcover index volumes, $5,470. □ Free 8 page brochure describing the project in more detail. □ Free catalog, The Dual-Media Checklist ó f Canadian Parliamentary Proceedings and Sessional Papers, 1841-1970, which contains a detailed breakdown of the Proceedings and Papers of the individual Parliaments and Sessions and lists prices for individual microfilm reels and single index volumes. (Multiple copies of this Checklist are included without charge when dual media sets or sub sets are ordered.) Deduct 5% from all prices on prepaid orders. N A M E ___________________________________________________________________ A D D R E SS______________________________ __ _ __ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 38 such fugitive materials in a special collection. The collection covers a broad range of sub­ ject areas, ranging from fringe politics, op­ pressed group publications, ecology, communal living, alternative life styles, prison reform, rad­ ical approaches to health care, education, and other professions, to film and music. Some groups specifically represented are the black, Puerto Rican, Chicano, and native American movements, and gay, women’s, and men’s liber­ ation. Fringe political materials are collected in the general areas of old and new left publi­ cations, pacifist publications, general “under­ ground” newspapers, patriotic, anti-Communist, and Racist-Nationalistic publications, and liber­ tarian and anarchist publications. Particular areas of strength are left-wing un­ derground newspapers, including large and u n ­ usual holdings of GI and high school under­ ground newspapers. Women’s liberation is also a major subject area, and the collection includes the complete Bell and Howell microfilm col­ lection of Herstory. Various peripheral materi­ als that are also of special interest include a near-complete run of the Flying Saucer Review ( an English periodical chronicling and investi­ gating extraterrestrial sightings), rock-and-roll fanzines, publications of religious groups, taped interviews with neo-Nazi leaders, D. A. Levy’s mimeographed press, Ted Berrigan’s communi­ qués when hiding from the FBI, and the W om ­ en in Film periodical, a news and criticism jour­ nal from the women’s liberation movement. The Contemporary Culture Center is pres­ ently microfilming selected parts of the periodi­ cal collection, and is working on a computer­ generated multisubject list for the pamphlet collection. In addition, the center has compiled a periodicals holdings list which is arranged by subject and gives titles and the addresses of the publishing organizations. Although the primary intent of the center is archival, it is open to the general public. Photocopies are available through interlibrary loan, b u t people intending to visit the collection are advised to make ar­ rangements in advance. Any queries may be ad­ dressed to the curator of the collection, Robert A. Sosin, Temple University, Samuel Paley Li­ brary, Philadelphia, PA 19122. • The Library of Congress received it 10,000th title on October 24 for cataloging un­ der the C a t a l o g i n g i n P u b l i c a t i o n P r o g r a m ( C I P ) . The book, Wilfred T. Neill’s Twentieth Century Indonesia, will be published by Co­ lumbia University Press in the spring of 1973. The galleys took four days to pass through the cataloging process, in line with a current aver­ age of three to six working days turnaround time and well within a ten-working-day maxi­ mum. During November and December an addi­ tional 2,000 titles were processed. This figure s reflects the increased number of titles being re­ ceived as new publishers join the program and gear up for full participation. Current weekly receipts of new CIP titles, projected at an an­ nual rate, show that the program is operating at the rate of between 14,000 to 15,000 titles per year, or approximately 50 percent of the American trade output. In the Cataloging in Publication Program, the first two years of which is being funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Council on Library Resources, Inc., the Library of Congress provides cataloging infor­ mation to be printed in the book itself. Proce­ dures have been established that enable library catalogers, working from galley proofs, to give the publishers for incorporation in the printed book those elements of cataloging that require professional decisions, such as the main entry, a short title, series statements, bibliographical notes, the LC call number, the Dewey Decimal Classification number, the LC card number, and the International Standard Book Number (ISB N ). A library receiving a book with this information can make its own cards or establish preliminary controls, in either case making it possible to get the book into circulation w ith­ out delay. Private purchasers of books, book­ sellers, and offices, and institutions without li­ brarians can also arrange their holdings for easy and efficient use. Of the more than 12,000 titles processed since the program began on July 1, 1971, less than half have actually appeared on the book market. Librarians should notice an increased number of CIP books in their spring deliveries, as more publishers have had between 90 and 100 percent of their spring titles processed through CIP. The Library of Congress hopes by June 30, 1973 to be providing data for the majority of titles published annually by the American book trade. P U B L I C A T I O N S • Duke University libraries announce the publication of African Serials in the D uke Uni­ versity Libraries as of April 30, 1972. This computer-based list includes titles concerning Africa or published about Africa. It also in­ cludes certain classes of publications that are not primarily devoted to Africa, b u t that do contain information that otherwise might not be easily obtainable, such as British Common­ wealth publications, archaeological and scientif­ ic journals, Islamic and other materials of the Middle East, Far East, and Orient. African Se­ rials is now available from the assistant librari­ an for technical services, William R. Perkins Li­ brary, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706, at $7.50 for each paperbound copy. • A pilot study to develop a feasible multi- media index to regional material has just been 39 completed. Its primary objective is to develop a tool for general user access to information in various formats by combining old and new methods and techniques of information retriev­ al. Simple computer programs manipulate the information on 106 sample items to produce a register of the items and the access indexes: is­ suing body/m ain entry, title and series, and subject/descriptor. Indexing terms were as­ sembled from headings assigned by Library of Congress, Sears, and Readers’ Guide, as well as from thesauri such as Thesaurus o f Engineer­ ing and Scientific Terms and Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. It is probable th a t both in ­ dexer and library cataloger will be alternately amused and abashed by the results. The report seeks to avoid undefined jargon of both the library and the computer in the seventy-two pages of discussion and the appen­ dixes. It includes a study of the indexes sam­ pled for regional material and an estimate of the quantity of material and the cost of devel­ oping the multimedia index it hopes to pilot. It includes an additional twenty-seven pages of computer printout for the 106 items handled. The study was made possible by support from the Alaska State Library and sabbatical leave from the Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska at Fairbanks. It is entitled A Contri­ bution to Regional Bibliography: Alaska; A Pi­ lot Study in Indexing. A limited number of copies is available from Margaret Harris at P.O. Box 3102, Fairbanks, AK 99701 for $3.00. Any discussion of the feasibility of the multi- media approach to indexing is most welcome by the author, Mrs. Harris, at the address given. • Number 17 in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science’s Allerton Park Institute series, Libraries and Neighbor­ hood Information Centers, has recently been published. The 140-page, indexed volume was edited and introduced by Carol L. Kronus, as­ sistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, and Linda Crowe, assistant profes­ sor in the Graduate School of Library Science at Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois. It has been suggested by many concerned with inner-city library service th a t the library serve as an informational link between commu­ nity residents and social agencies. This institute was conceived to explore the concept and rami­ fications of library-based neighborhood informa­ tion and referral centers. Both library- and nonlibrary-related projects are discussed. A broad picture of the urban scene present­ ing some of its problems and services was pre­ sented in the papers by Nicholas Long, “Infor­ mation and Referral Services: A Short History and Some Recommendations”; Norbert Wiley, “Overview of the American City”; and Carl E. Block, “Communicating with the Poor.’’ W il­ liam Garvey and Frank J. Kopecky respectively describe the nonlibrary information projects of the Steelworkers and the O.E.O. Community Centers. Information referral services allied with the library were reviewed and analyzed by Dorothy Sinclair and Henry T. Drennan. James Welbourne discussed “Training Urban Information Specialists” as he experienced it in an experimental project at the University of Maryland. A panel whose members were all in­ volved in information referral projects reported on activities in Elyria, Ohio; Philadelphia; Chi­ cago; Detroit; and Syracuse, New York. The volume also contains a forty-two-item bibliogra­ phy on libraries and neighborhood information centers. This book is available for $4.00 from the Il­ lini Union Bookstore, 715 S. W right St., Cham­ paign, IL 61820. Standing orders for the Aller­ ton Park Institute series can be placed at the same address. LC Card Number is 78-81002 and the ISBN is 0-87845-034-3. ACRL Membership December 31, 1972 12,472 December 31, 1971 12,101 December 31, 1970 12,249 A V A I L A B L E NO W ! A N e w L i b r a r y T o o l . SERIALS: Acquisition & M ain ten a n ce by C lara 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 from EBSCO Industries. Inc. Attn: Sam Brown P.O. Box 1943 Birmingham, Ala. 35201 Casino Theater, N ew York, 1896. The Byron The G uth rie Theater, C o llection . Museum of the C ity o f New York D ocum ents of 1963. M inneapolis A m e rica n T h eater H istory Vols. 1 and 2: F am ous A m erican P layhouses William C. Young P r e s e n t i n g a u n iq u e c o m p ila tio n of p r i m a r y an d s e c o n d a r y s o u rc e s i l lu m i n a t i n g th e h i s t o r y of A m e r ic a n p la y h o u se s, f r o m 1716 to 1971. 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