ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


News From the Field

G R A N T S
•  Grants numbers 12 and 13 under the joint 

College Library Program of the Council on Li­
brary Resources and the National Endowment 
for the Humanities have been made to James­
town College in North Dakota and the Uni­
versity of Colorado for $50,000 and $75,750 
respectively.

Commencing in September 1973, the li­
braries of the two institutions will initiate five- 
year budgeted programs designed to educate 
faculty and students in the areas of library re­
sources and their effective utilization. James­
town and Colorado are committed to matching 
the CLR-NEH funds during the five-year peri­
od.

Jamestown College will add to its staff a co­
ordinator of library utilization, a person com­
bining the experience and attributes of both li­
brarian and educator, to direct its program. 
Key elements of the program include: a series 
of formal presentations to the college’s com­
bined faculty; informal interaction seminars 
with faculties of the humanities; and a curricu­
lum analysis program each January when the 
coordinator of library utilization and four se­
lected faculty members who have been released 
from regular duties will consider such things 
as bibliographic development, analysis of the 
library’s holdings in individual course areas, 
and planning to assure availability of desired 
library resources as they relate to instruction.

The coordinator will also organize and teach 
a new course entitled “Introduction to Indi­
vidualized Learning” and serve as a resource 
person in solving library utilization and refer­
ence problems.

The University of Colorado proposes to add 
two subject specialists to its library staff to im­
prove use of its undergraduate library. These 
individuals will devote half of their time to as­
signed departments of the humanities working 
with faculty and students and the other half as 
reference librarians.

The program will be geared initially to in­
creasing faculty involvement in promoting stu­
dent use of library resources. In the process, 
the specialists will give instruction as classroom 
teachers in bibliography as it is related to spe­
cific subjects; work with departmental faculty 
in rating the bibliographic quality of students’ 
assigned work; prepare instructional aids in 
literature and library use; and participate in 
faculty seminars and meetings.

Student assistants are scheduled to work with 
the subject specialists in the move toward im­
proved library utilization.

•  The School of Library and Information 
Services, University of Maryland, received 
a grant of $7,500 from the Office of Education, 
Leadership Training Institute. With support 
from this grant, the University of Maryland Li­
brary Administrators Development Program in­
vited applications for full fellowships to cover 
the costs of attendance at the seventh annual 
program from July 15-27, 1973.

The grants were restricted to individuals who 
meet the following criteria: members of such 
minority groups as Negroes, American Indians, 
Spanish surnamed Americans and Orientals (or 
such other minority group members as are iden­
tified in the formal application). Applicants 
were selected on the basis of their promise for 
assuming leadership roles in librarianship in the 
several types of library—public, academic, spe­
cial, and school. A primary purpose was to of­
fer advanced training so as to stimulate further 
development in leadership training through the 
application of skills and ideas gained by the 
participants in educationally extending these 
concepts to other minority group members in 
librarianship.

M E E T IN G S

August 5-11: Library Administrators. A 
one-week Executive Development Program will 
be conducted at Miami University this summer 
for library administrators. The program will be 
presented during the week of August 5 through 
August 11, 1973, by Miami’s School of Busi­
ness Administration. Because the program is be­
ing presented independently by Miami Univer­
sity rather than for a governmental agency, 
greater latitude and flexibility have been pos­
sible in designing a conference specifically to 
fit the needs of library administrators.

The basic purpose of the program is to give 
library administrators and executives a sound 
foundation in basic management principles; to 
accomplish this a staff of nationally-known in­
structors and directors of management develop­
ment programs has been assembled to present 
the program. Several of these men have par­
ticipated in the previous fifteen programs for 
librarians presented by the school in the last 
five years for the U.S. Office of Education, The 
State Library of Ohio, and on an independent 
basis; hence, they are well aware of the man­
agement problems confronting library adminis­
trators and can converse specifically about 
them. The program is designed for administra­
tors, directors, and other key executives in all 
types of libraries—in fact, any librarians who 
make or influence .management decisions, in­

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eluding library consultants and professors of li­
brary science.

Anyone wishing to attend the program 
should write for an application and brochure 
to Robert H. Myers, Director, Executive De­
velopment Program, School of Business Ad­
ministration, Miami University, Oxford, OH 
45056.

Oct. 12: Libraries, Information and the 
Environment will be held at the Statler Hil­
ton Hotel. The conference is being sponsored 
by the New York Chapters of the American So­
ciety for Information Science and the Special 
Libraries Association. Members will receive res­
ervation forms in the mail. Others may obtain 
additional information from Carmela Carbone, 
Engineering Societies Library, 345 East 47th 
St., New York, NY 10017.

Oct. 21-25: ASIS. The thirty-sixth Annual 
Meeting of the American Society for Informa­
tion Science ( ASIS) will be held at the Los An­
geles Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. 
For further information see the June News.

Oct. 25-27: The Virginia Library Associa­
tion annual conference will be held at the 
John Marshall Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

Nov. 11-14: CATV and Its Implications 
for Libraries. To be held at Allerton House, 
Robert Allerton Park, University of Illinois Con­
ference Center, Monticello, Illinois. Co-spon­
sored by Illinois State Library and The Univer­
sity of Illinois Graduate School of Library Sci­
ence, and The Division of University Exten­
sion. Additional information may be obtained 
from: Leonard E. Sigler, Institute Supervisor 
(OS-89), 116 Mini Hall, Champaign, IL 
61820.

M IS C E L L A N Y

•  Tlie United F arm Workers Union is in 
the process of creating a professional library at 
its national headquarters in Keene, California. 
The funding for this project must be accom­
plished by the support of individual donations 
for supplies and equipment. Although the need 
for the library is critical, the union cannot meet 
this kind of financial burden at this time. Some 
of the items required are heavy-duty filing cabi­
nets, an electric typewriter, microfilm supplied, 
map cabinets, and all basic office and library 
supplies.

If you would like to help, please contact Mrs. 
Barbara J. Pruett, 1346 Calle Oriente # 4 , Mil­
pitas, CA 95035 or The United Farm Workers 
Union, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531.

•  The National Commission on Libraries 
and Information Science announced last

week its schedule of meetings and hearings for 
the 1973-74 year.

The commission will continue its series of 
public hearings with two scheduled in fiscal 
year 1973; in Boston, Massachusetts, for the 
northeast states on Wednesday, October 3, 
1973, and in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednes­
day, April 24, 1974, to hear testimony from 
citizens, librarians, and other interested parties 
in the southwest.

The commission will also meet for two days 
immediately after the public hearings in Boston 
and in San Antonio and will hold regular com­
mission meetings at the Library of Congress in 
Washington, D.C. on December 6 and 7, 1973; 
February 7 and 8, 1974; and May 30 and 31, 
1974.

The commission is especially interested in re­
ceiving testimony from all interested citizens 
including nonusers of library information facil­
ities at their public hearings. For further infor­
mation, please contact the National Commission 
on Libraries and Information Science, tele­
phone (202) 382-6595, or 1717 K Street, NW, 
Suite 601, Washington, DC 20036.

•  The School of Library Science, Case 
Western Reserve University has developed 
for an international audience several education­
al programs in information science and library 
automation. The content of these programs, 
generalizable world-wide, is applicable to spe­
cific, local needs for improvement of library 
and information services.

Programs are of several types:
1. Nondegree programs: (a ) for persons in­

terested in developing or expanding specific 
knowledge in information science an d /o r li­
brary automation; ( b )  for persons interested 
in teaching information science an d /o r library 
automation. The nondegree programs are of 
four months duration ( one sem ester).

2. Degree programs: (a ) for the Master of 
Science in Library Science with specialization 
in information science an d /o r library automa­
tion; (b ) for the Doctorate in information and 
library science. These programs will prepare a 
graduate to transfer knowledge in information 
science or library automation to the needs of 
his own country.

In addition, consultation by experienced fac­
ulty members is available for the development, 
evaluation, and teaching of information science 
education programs at individual institutions. 
Further information is available from: Dr. 
Tefko Saracevic, Chairman, International Pro­
grams, School of Library Science, Case W est­
ern Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, 
U.S.A.

•  The new H ealth Sciences Library at 
Ohio State University, one of the most ad­

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vanced libraries in the country, will contain an 
automated bookstack system to locate and file 
books. It is the fourth library in the country to 
have the system ( Randtriever, manufactured 
by Remington Rand C orp.).

The bookstack system will find and deliver
a book via a conveyor belt in about a minute. 
The book stacks in the new library take up 
about 15 percent of the total space while in 
most libraries the stacks take 40 to 60 percent
of the space. Aisles in the stacks are narrow, 
about fifteen inches, and the shelves rise 
through two stories of the library.

The library is connected with the computer­
ized circulation system of University Libraries, 
made up of a main library and twenty-three
branch libraries. This circulation system is the 
first of its type in the country and permits li­
brary users to place telephone calls to learn 
titles and authors and to charge out books.

• The history of science and technolo­
gy in the San Francisco Bay Area will be docu­
mented in a major program to be undertaken 
by the University of California’s Bancroft Li­
brary. Library director James D. Hart said 
funding for the new program was the largest
for any documentation project in the library’s 
history.

Half of the amount has been pledged by two 
leaders in the area’s electronics industry, Wil­
liam B. Hewlett, founding partner and current 
president of Hewlett-Packard Co., and David 
Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard and 
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense. The 
science and technology project will have total 
funding of more than $300,000. It will initially 
concentrate on two areas, the achievements of 
the Lawrence Laboratory at Berkeley and the 
developments in the area of electronics and 
electrical engineering that have originated on 
the San Francisco peninsula near Stanford Uni­
versity. The library will gather scientific papers 
and records from the leaders of these activities 
and also conduct tape recorded historical inter­
views of these leaders through the Bancroft’s 
Regional Oral History Office.

The project will be guided by Edwin Mc­
Millan, the Nobel prize-winning director of the 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and by Provost 
Emeritus Frederick Terman of Stanford. The 
contributions from Hewlett and Packard call 
for the use of matching funds. While these are 
being sought Berkeley Chancellor Albert H. 
Bowker has advanced gift funds to get the 
project started.

•  The American Society for Information 
Science is cosponsoring, with thirteen other 
professional societies, an impartial study of the 
impact on the communication process of pend­
ing copyright legislation. The study is being

prepared by the Cambridge Research Institute, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a “hands-off” ba­
sis, and is scheduled for publication this spring. 
The multisponsored study analyzes in detail 
some twenty-five key issues affected by copy­

 right, such as fair use, library photocopying, 
and the impact of new technology. Each of 
these issues are defined, the facts of the present 
copyright law are stated, the problems and ju­

 dicial decisions which have arisen since the law 
was passed in 1909 are analyzed, and the im­
pact of the proposed copyright revisions are 
presented and discussed. The study also evalu­
ates the plans for a National Commission on 
New Technological Uses of Copyright Works. 

 The proposed commission is part of the copy­
right-revision package. For further information, 
contact ASIS Headquarters, 1140 Connecticut 
Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036; telephone 
(202) 659-3644.

•  H.R. 4850, a bill to establish a commis­
sion to study and make recommendations on 
METHODS FOR COMPENSATING AUTHORS for the 
use of their books by libraries was introduced 
by Rep. Ogden Reid (D .-N .Y .) on February 

 27. The commission to be located in the Li­
brary of Congress would include the librarian 
of Congress and ten other members who would 
report back to Congress and the president with­
in eighteen months from the date the bill is 
enacted. In his introductory statement, Mr. Reid 
commented that several European countries, in­
cluding Sweden and Denmark, have instituted 
a system of paying authors “lending royalties,” 
and that Great Britain is now studying the es­
tablishment of such a system. If the system of 
compensating authors for the “readership” of 
their books is found feasible, “the Commission 
would be expected to study avenues of financ­
ing the lending royalties—whether, for in­
stance, funds should be channeled through the 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 
the Library of Congress, the National Founda­
tion on the Arts and Humanities, or another 
unit.” (See February 27 Congressional Record, 
p. E-1067, for entire statement.) The measure 
has been referred to the House Administration 
Committee.

Representative Reid, who shifted from the 
Republican to the Democratic Party last year, 
has been a longtime supporter of library pro­
grams and was the ranking minority member 
of the House Select Subcommittee on Educa­
tion which considered major library legislation. 
In switching parties, he lost that committee 
seat, and now serves on the Foreign Affairs 
Committee. (ALA Washington Newsletter, υ.25, 
no.3 (March 12, 1973), p.4.)

•  A computer catalog of 5,000 mono­
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available at Syracuse University’s Ernest S. Bird 
Library. “PL 480 Hindi Monographs Listings,” 
compiled by Gurnek Singh, bibliographer of 
Asian studies, joins lists of works in the Indian 
languages Gujarati and Marathi for a total of 
8,500 monographs now under computerized 
bibliographical control.

The monographs, received through the Li­
brary of Congress Public Law 480 project, deal 
with the culture, politics, economics, history, 
geography, and art of India. The library has 
copies of treatises published in India in the 
country’s several major languages and some in 
English.

•  The American Society for Information Sci­
ence announced th at its contract to operate the 
ERIC Clearinghouse on Library and Informa­
tion Sciences (E R IC /C L IS ) for the National 
Institute of Education has been extended to 
December 31, 1973.

ER IC /C L IS will continue to acquire docu­
ments, abstract and index them for Research 
in Education (RIE), and maintain its local col­
lection. Selected journals will be indexed and 
annotated for input into the Current Index to 
Journals in Education (CIJE). Major emphasis 
will be placed on direct user services, including 
some automated searches of the ERIC data 
base. Special projects underway or in the plan­
ning stages include: Abstract agreements with 
top journals in the fields of library and infor­
mation sciences, production of ERIC Products 
( an annotated bibliography of all ERIC Clear­
inghouses’ information analysis publications), 
and a microlibrary of E R IC /C L IS  accessions.

Of particular interest is an arrangement b e­
tween E R IC /C L IS, the American Library As­
sociation’s Library Education Development Re­
search Committee, the Research Committee of 
the Association of American Library Schools 
and the editors of Library Literature which 
will give greater visibility to research efforts by 
library school students. A letter is being sent 
to the deans of library schools asking them to 
submit masters level research papers to E R IC / 
CLIS for possible input into the ERIC system 
through RIE. This will allow valuable research 
efforts which would otherwise be unavailable 
to a wide audience to enjoy announcement and 
dissemination via hard copy and microfiche for­
mats to a large and diverse community of 
users. ER IC /C L IS will inform the editors of 
Library Literature which papers are entered in­
to the ERIC system so th at they can also be an­
nounced in th at journal.

•  Tenure is indispensable to academic free­
dom and educational excellence, a national 
commission studying all aspects of tenure in 
American higher education has concluded in 
a report just released.

The Commission on Academic Tenure in 
Higher Education, whose year-long project was 
supported by a $125,000 grant from The Ford 
Foundation, said, “The Commission affirms its 
conviction that academic tenure, rightly under­
stood and properly administered, provides the 
most reliable means of assuring faculty quality 
and educational excellence, as well as the best 
guarantee of academic freedom.

The commission reported that none of the al­
ternatives proposed for tenure can be relied 
upon to protect academic freedom or eliminate 
the deficiencies now identified in the concept 
of tenure. I t especially singled out the substitut­
ing of term contracts for tenure as not solving 
current deficiencies and presenting new and 
more serious problems.

The commission found also th at the propor­
tion of tenured faculty in 1972 (almost fifty 
percent) was approximately equal to the pro­
portion in the 1960s. It noted, however, that 
prospects for the future are quite different.

“The relative youth of most present faculties 
means that retirements will occur at a slower 
rate and fewer tenure positions will open up. 
Budgets are expected to remain tight; and en­
rollments—although they will continue to grow 
—will grow at a sharply reduced rate.”

Thus without careful planning the opportuni­
ties to inject new blood into college and univer­
sity faculties will be seriously limited, the com­
mission pointed out.

The commission was sponsored by the As­
sociation of American Colleges and The Amer­
ican Association of University Professors. It was 
completely independent of the sponsoring or­
ganizations. Its report, Faculty Tenure, will be 
published by Jossey-Bass.

•  Herman Liebaers, director of the Royal 
Library of Belgium in Brussels and president 
of the International Federation of Library As­
sociations (IF L A ), will be a full-time consul­
tant for the Council on Library Resources, Inc., 
Washington, D.C., during a year’s leave of ab­
sence starting May 1, 1973.

Dr. Liebaers will devote a major portion of 
his time with the council to furthering the de­
velopment of IFLA and its activities and in 
preparing policy and action statements on in­
ternational library matters, especially in regard 
to underdeveloped countries. During the course 
of the year Dr. Liebaers plans also to visit a 
number of major research and academic librar­
ies for the purpose of completing a study of 
United States libraries.

P U B L I C A T I O N  S

•  The Ford Foundation (320 East 43 St., 
New York, NY 10017) announces the publica­
tion of the 128 page Inquiry into the Uses of 
nstructional Technology. This report examinesI

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the new technologies of teaching and learning 
—television and related techniques, videotape, 
film, audiotape, radio, programmed instruction, 
computers, and new kinds of books. The Ford 
Foundation, which has been active in instruc­
tional technology since the early 1950s, com­
missioned the study to provide guidance for fu­
ture funding. Originally an internal document, 
the report has been adapted for a wider audi­
ence.

The techniques of each major field in instruc­
tional technology are examined in detail. The 
current and potential uses for technology in 
schools and universities are explored. Major 
projects in different parts of the world are 
analyzed, showing how some countries are ap­
plying technology to primary and secondary 
schooling, higher education, and the general 
education of the community.

The price is $2.00 (single copy), $1.50 (two 
to ten copies), $1.00 (ten copies or more). 
Payment must accompany orders.

•  The University of California Library Au­
tomation Program has completed the computer 
processing to cumulate the annual Supplements 
to the Library of Congress List of Subject 
Headings (7th ed.). Staff members have com­
pleted editing of a preliminary working edition, 
and the 1971 supplement has been merged into 
the previous cumulation. A fully edited cumu­
lation of all supplements from the second, 1966, 
through the seventh, 1971, is now ready for 
publication. The first supplement to the 7th edi­
tion of the LC List is not included in the U.C. 
cumulation because it was not in machine-read­
able form.

The U.C. cumulation of the seven annual LC 
Supplements is expected to be a useful time­
saving tool for cataloging. A limited number of 
copies beyond those required by U.C. have 
been prepared and will be made available to 
other interested organizations at $40.00 each. 
Address requests to the Director, University­
wide Library Automation Programs, c/o The 
Institute of Library Research, South Hall An­
nex, University of California, Berkeley, CA 
94720.

•  The Directory of Library Reprographic 
Services, 5th edition, is the latest edition of a 
series of compilations, published under the aus­
pices of the Reproduction of Library Materials 
Section of the Resources and Technical Ser­
vices Division of the American Library Associa­
tion. The latest edition has been compiled and 
edited by Joseph Z. Nitecki, assistant director 
for Technical Services, Temple University. The 
directory provides detailed information about 
the reprographic services of over 240 different 
photoduplication departments in the United 
States and abroad. In addition, the directory

includes: (1) A glossary of terms; (2) Rules 
for requesting reprographic services; (3) A 
sample library phctoduplication order form; 
and (4) United States Microfilm Rate Index 
prepared by Robert C. Sullivan, chief, Order 
Department, Library of Congress. Copies of the 
directory can be ordered from the publisher, 
Microform Review Inc., Rogues Ridge, Weston, 
CT 06880. The price is $4.00 prepaid.

•  For the recently published bibliography, 
A Catalogue of Sanborn Atlases at California 
State University, Northridge by Gary Rees and 
Mary Hoeber please direct inquiry and orders 
to Stanley Stevens, Map Librarian, Library, 
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. 
This attractive paper-bound catalog of 122 
pages sells for $4.00 (add 5 percent tax in Cali­
fornia). This bibliography is Occasional Paper 
Number 1 of the Western Association of Map 
Libraries. Its entries are by state and commu­
nity and it is indexed by state and county. The 
map library of California State University at 
Northridge is known to have the largest collec­
tion of Sanborn Map Co. maps and atlases of 
western America.

•  The Women’s History Research Center 
of Berkeley, California has recently published 
a limited edition of the 1973 Index by Topic 
of Women’s Studies Courses and the 1973 In­
dex by Topic of Bibliographies on Women. 
Both are guides to material donated to the li­
brary over the past five years as well as sources 
for other material. The second printing of the 
1972 Directory of Films by and about Women 
is also available; the first printing was sold out 
in four months. These publications are being 
distributed by the Center at 2325 Oak St., 
Berkeley, CA 94708.

The Index of Courses and the Directory of 
Films are $5.00 each and the Index of Bibliog­
raphies is $2.00.

• The proceedings of the 1972 Conference 
on Federal and Private Foundation Programs 
in Support of Higher Education are now avail­
able.

The conference, sponsored by the Office of 
the Chancellor and California State College, 
Sonoma, of The California State University and 
Colleges, was held on March 13-14, 1972, San 
Francisco, California. Some forty-four program 
directors from twenty different federal agencies 
and private foundations spoke at the confer­
ence.

Keynote speakers included Frank Newman, 
director of university relations, Stanford Uni- 
versity-“The New Demand for Planning in 
Higher Education”; Edward C. Creutz, assist­
ant director for research, National Science 
Foundation-“Some Changes in the Responsibili­

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ties of Academic Institutions”; Edward Nathan,
executive director, The Zellerbach Family Fund
- “College-Community Projects: Opportunism or
Commitment?”; Mel Najarian, general counsel,
ACTION-“A Role in Higher Education.”

Copies of the proceedings of the conference
may be obtained at $6.00 per copy (plus 5 per
cent sales tax for California residents) from the
Documents Division, Room 705, Office of the
Chancellor, The California State University and
Colleges, 5670 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
90036. Checks or money orders should be made
payable to “Documents Division.”

•  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Library and
Information Sciences announces the publication
of Trends in Modern Subject Analysis with Ref
erence to Text Derivative Indexing and Ab
stracting Methods: The State of the Art by
Keith C. Wright.

The author, librarian at Gallaudet College
in Washington, D.C., briefly reviews the infor­
mation explosion of the last thirty years and the
various attempts made to organize that infor­
mation in new ways.

It is available as INFORMATION. PART 2,
Volume 1, Number 5, September-October 1972,
from Science Associates/International, Inc., 23
East 26th St., New York, NY 10010. Price for
single issues: $7.50 each.

•  Northwestern University library announc­
es the availability of their most recent publica­
tion, The Opening of The Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies (Evanston, Illinois;
Northwestern University Library, 1973.-vii,
31p.: port.). It consists of the remarks and pa­
pers delivered at the formal opening of the col­
lection. The publication is available from the
Administrative Office, Northwestern University
Library, Evanston, IL 60201, for $2.00.

•  The American Society for Information Sci­
ence announces the publication of The Invisible
Medium: The State of the Art of Microform
and a Guide to the Literature by Frances G. 
Spigai. The author describes the many types of
microforms, explains the differences between
each type, and discusses the uses, benefits, and 
drawbacks of the various microforms. Included
are a discussion of related technological events 
of the past decade and a list of microform 
equipment. Many technical terms are defined

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esses of the various microform types. Also in­
cluded is an annotated bibliography of the lit­
erature of micrographics. It may be purchased 
from ASIS for $3.50 per copy.

•  Good Words: Notable Rooks on the Amer­
ican Indian is the title of an eleven-page anno­
tated list of recent books, prepared by Ameri­
can Indian students for the RASD Adult Li­
brary Materials Committee. This list is available 
in quantity from the ALA Order Department 
at the following rates: 10 copies, $2.50; 25, 
$5.00; 50, $9.00; 100, $17.00. Single copies are 
available from the ALA Reference and Adult 
Services Division upon receipt of $.16 in 
stamps and a self-addressed mailing label.

•  The Boston Theological Institute an­
nounces the publication of Current Theological 
Bibliography III, a typeset “Classified Listing” 
of the BTI’s computerized cataloging from 
March 1971 to December 1972. Over 20,000 
separate bibliographic entries and over 40,000 
holding statements are included, representing 
locations in the eight member libraries: An­
dover Newton Theological School, Boston Col­
lege’s Bapst Library, Boston University School 
of Theology, Episcopal Theological School, 
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s God­
dard Library, Harvard Divinity School’s An­
dover-Harvard Library, St. John’s Seminary, 
and Western College. The organizational 
scheme of the bibliography is the Library of 
Congress classification number sequence. LC 
subject headings and subheadings introduce 
each section of the catalog’s text. Copies of 
Current Theological Bibliography III are avail­
able for $10.00 from the BTI, Office of the Li­
brarian, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 
02138.

•  The Library of Congress has issued a 
manual for users of the National Union Catalog 
reference service. The thirty-three-page booklet, 
prepared by John W. Kimball, Jr., assistant 
head of the Library’s Union Catalog and Inter­
national Organizations Reference Section, is en­
titled The National Union Catalog: Reference 
and Related Services. Organized into six sec­
tions, the manual provides: (1) general infor­
mation about the NUC in card and book form 
as well as various related publications, (2 ) re­

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vised and expanded instructions for submitting 
reference and location requests to the Union 
Catalog Reference Unit (UCRU) by mail and 
by TWX, including details on the W eekly List 
of Unlocated Research Books, (3 ) a list of stan­
dard sources to be checked in verifying biblio­
graphic citations, (4 ) a partial list of institu­
tions that own the NUC: Pre-1956 Imprints, 
(5 ) procedures for obtaining dissertations and 
theses, copies of National Archives holdings, 
National Technical Information Service materi­
als, translations of foreign publications, and 
U.S. Government publications, and (6 ) an 
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SOURCES OF 
INFORMATION 
IN THE 
SOCIAL SCIENCES

A Guide to the Literature
—  Second Edition, Revised

CARL M. WHITE AND ASSOCIATES

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