ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 308 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • The Arizona State University library has recently acquired a 12-volume set of Ming Dynasty rubbings executed by Wen Cheng-ming (1470-Í559). The collection, entitled T’ing-yün- kuan fa-t’ieh, depicts the styles of master callig­ raphers from the Eastern Chin Dynasty (303-379) to the work of one of Wen’s contemporaries, Chu Yün-ming (1450-1526). The work was purchased in Tokyo and is believed to be the only set in the United States. • The Health Sciences Library of Columbia University has established the June L. and Samuel T. Orton Collection with the donation of the Ortons’ extensive records and files. Samuel Orton, professor of neurology and neuropathology at Columbia, was a pioneer in the field of de­ velopmental learning disabilities, especially dys­ lexia. His wife provided for the collection in her will. • Emory University’s Woodruff Library has purchased a collection of books and papers about communism that should make the library one of the nation’s leading research centers on the de­ velopment of the Communist Party in the United States. Two Emory political science professors, Harvey Klehr and Thomas Remington, have re­ ceived a grant totaling $12,000 to bring the for­ mer owner of the collection, Philip J. Jaffe, to Atlanta from New York City to assist in proces­ sing the materials. Among the items are copies of rare magazines, private manuscripts, and the papers of such con­ troversial figures as Anna Louise Strong, Agnes Smedley, Norman Bethune, and Koji Ariyoshi, an American serviceman tried in Hawaii under the Smith Act. • The Library of Congress has received from Hans P. and Hanni Kraus a unique collection re­ lating to the life and explorations of Sir Francis Drake. The 60 items in the collection, which in­ cludes maps, manuscripts, printed books, medals, and portraits, provide important new insights into D rake’s explorationsand military accomplish­ ments. One of the crowning pieces of the Kraus Collection is a letter written by Gerhard Merca­ tor, one of the greatest sixteenth-century cartog­ raphers, to Abraham Ortelius in which Drake’s route around the world is conjectured. • The Humanities Research Center at the Uni­ versity of Texas at Austin recently acquired the David O. Selznick archives. Selznick, who died in 1965, was the producer of such major films as Gone with the Wind, Duel in the Sun, A Farewell to Arms, and many others. His archives, which include 1,961 file boxes of correspondence and 38 four-drawer file cases of manuscript materials, drawings, and paintings, provide what is perhaps the most thorough record available of the prog­ ress and achievements of a Hollywood studio. GRANTS • Alfred University has been awarded more than $12,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog a special collection of Nazi German materials. The Waid Collection, given to Herrick Library in 1963, was assembled in Ger­ many after World War II by H. Warner Waid of Elmira, New York, a civilian employee of the State Department. The grant will be used to cata­ log the collection of approximately 700 books and related materials on Nazi Germany and to pre­ pare a simple subject guide for distribution to other libraries. • Cornell University has received a $3 mil­ lion commitment from Harold D. Uris, a New York City investment builder and 1925 Cornell graduate, on behalf of the Uris Brothers Founda­ tion. The gift will be used for an addition to the Uris Undergraduate Library. • The F isk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee, has been awarded $293,666 by the National Endowment for the Humanities for lec­ tures, interpretive exhibits, and media programs on the life and culture of Black Americans and their cultural contributions to the United States. • The Mountain Plains Library Association, headquartered at the University of South Dako­ ta in Vermillion, has been awarded $259,375 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support seminars and discussions and to prepare a film, exhibits, and oral histories on the country school experience. Project activities will involve the public at 200 libraries in the eight mountain plains states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Col­ orado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. • The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has announced the receipt of a grant of $425,000 from the Andrew W. Mel­ lon Foundation of New York City in support of historical editing projects to publish the papers of five Founding Fathers: John Adams and his fami­ ly, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. The grant is intended to give the editors and sponsoring in­ stitutions a three-year period in which to develop other bases of financial support. The Commission will administer the Mellon Foundation award, making separate grants on a formula basis to the five projects each year. • The New E ngland Document Conserva- 309 T iO N Center, Andover, Massachusetts, has re­ ceived $125,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will enable the cen te r to provide thirty to forty small and medium-sized New England libraries and ar­ chives with short-term, on-site consultation on the storage, handling, and care of historical col­ lections of books, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials. In addition, the center will publish a manual on determining a library’s conservation needs and hold a conference on cooperative library con­ servation efforts for professionals from all parts of the country. The New England Document Conservation Center is the only regional conservation center in the nation. • OCLC, I nc., has been awarded a $97,902 grant by the National Science Foundation to de­ velop and test an algorithm for estimating the number of public computer terminals needed by a library to support an online public catalog. Li­ brary use will be measured and analyzed from four perspectives: catalog use, reference activity, circulation, and building occupancy. Library use data will be collected at The Ohio State Univer­ sity Libraries, Columbus, which has both online and card systems. • Radcliffe College has received a $60,316 grant from the National Institute of Aging to transcribe and analyze interviews with elderly black women leaders. Researchers at the Henry A. Murray Research Center and the Schlesinger Library will process the interviews and study the coping strategies black women have developed for survival. The interviews, conducted as part of the Radcliffe College Black Women Oral History Project, which was supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, will become part of the data collection at the Murray Center. • The University of Southwestern Louisi­ ana has been awarded a grant of $25,000 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission which will be used to preserve an important collection of photographic negatives housed in the University Libraries. The Freeland Photographic Collection consists of over 18,000 glass plate negatives, 4,000 nitrate and 36,000 safety film negatives taken by the Eli Barnett Studio of Crowley, Louisiana, circa 1907-1972. As a result of the grant the negatives will be treated for removal of a fungus infestation that has collected on the plates. • The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries has been awarded a $175,000 grant for the conversion of cataloging of Latin American Serial Publications into machine-readable form. This is the library’s third major consecutive grant under the H igher Education Act, Title II-C, Strengthening Research Library Resources Pro­ gram. Eventually a printed catalog of these serials will be available to other libraries. 310 • A quarterly publication of the University of Wyoming Libraries, Conservation Administration News (CAN), has been awarded a $2,000, two- year grant for editorial assistance. The Council on Library Resources granted this sum to CAN de­ spite the council’s usual policy against supporting serial publications. This grant recognizes the important role the one-year-old new sletter plays in prom oting nationwide library and archival preservation, according to Robert H. Patterson, UW Library director and CAN editor. Within the past few months CAN has become the news organ for several major preservation organizations, includ­ ing the new ALA Preservation Section and the newly organized Western Conservation Congress. CAN has nearly 400 subscribers around the world. NEWS NOTES • Claremont Colleges’ Honnold Library is the first library to win the prestigious Cost Re­ duction and Incentive Award funded by the Unit­ ed States Steel Foundation and awarded by the National Association of College and Business Officers (NACUBO). The award was based on the library’s use of OCLC and the development of the “Claremont Total Library System,” an online system th at supports th e com plete cycle of Claremont library procedures from the point a book is searched for ordering through cataloging. The system was first presented publicly on a pro­ gram at the national EDUCOM Conference in San Diego in October 1979. • The Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California, anticipates completion of a two-story, 37,000-square-foot li­ brary for its faculty and 500 students in May 1981. Special features of this building will include provisions for a television studio for closed-circuit TV training programs. • The Harold McCracken Research Library was dedicated on August 15 at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The new library was named in honor of the center’s found­ ing director, an author, explorer, and noted au­ thority on western art. Over 12,000 books and microforms devoted to w estern art, history, firearms, and Plains Indian culture are housed in the library. • North D akota State University Library has completed the finishing touches on almost 60,000 square feet of remodeled space and 40,000 square feet of additional space. A library staff of 41 participated in the shift of the library’s 337,000 volumes, and the new building was dedicated May 23. • The Research L ibraries G roup has an­ nounced the addition of three new institutions to their membership: Tulane University, the Amer­ ican Antiquarian Society, and the State Universi­ ty of New York at Binghamton. The latter institu­ tion is the first to enroll as an associate member. • Union College Library, New York, un­ covered thirteen mammoth-plate albumen prints by Carlton Watkins, a noted nineteenth-century American photographer, during a recent inven­ tory of its special collections. The photographs were probably taken in the mid-to-late-1860s and show the Columbia River Yosemite National Park, and other areas of California. • Universal Serials and Book E xchange (USBE), has announced two special foreign mem­ bership plans which were begun on a trial basis in September. The plans were developed to give members outside North America the opportunity to reduce the agency’s cost in serving members abroad. The first plan allows a foreign library that acquires about 1,000 USBE publications a year to enroll as a member by making a nonrefundable deposit of $3,000 for future acquisitions. Libraries which acquire fewer publications can enroll in groups of ten or more libraries through a central agency. The purchasing or processing center or network office makes a deposit of $5,000 for fu­ ture orders from the group. • The Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, has pre­ pared an exhibit e n title d “The Enem ies of Books.” The exhibition features the work of such enemies as inherent vice, accidents, hostile en­ vironmental conditions (“such as the Kansas sum­ mer of 1980”), and biological enemies (“such as bookworms, mice, and men”). Human enemies include publishers, bookbinders, censors, book­ sellers, readers, and librarians. The exhibition will run through December. • The University of T exas at Austin has C hoice In itia te s N e w C o v e r Series Starting with the Septem ber 1080 issue, Choice, ACRL’s review journal for academic and special libraries, has changed its cover to a series of four-color covers featuring academic libraries. Institutions from all parts of the country will be featured: college and community college libraries as well as uni­ versity libraries. Academic libraries interested in appearing on the cover of Choice should write to Jay Martin Poole, Editor, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457. Color, verti­ cal photos of the library’s exterior should be enclosed. Selected libraries will be asked to provide color separations for their photograph. The first cover features Olin Memorial Li­ brary, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. 311 embarked on a project to locate, acquire, orga­ nize, and preserve the presidential papers of the League of U nited Latin American C itizens (LULAC) dating from 1929 to the present. Laura G utiérrez-W itt, head librarian of the Benson Latin American Collection at the university’s general library, will coordinate the LULAC pres­ idential papers project. The league was one of the first general attem pts on the part of Mexican- Americans to organize themselves for the purpose of giving voice to their needs as United States citizens. ■■ A CADEM IC/RESEARCH LIBRARIAN O F T H E YEAR AWARD The Association of College and Research Li­ braries invites nominations for the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award, presented jointly by ACRL and the Baker & Taylor Com­ pany. Anyone wishing to subm it nominations should request a nomination form from the ACRL office, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Recipients of the award since its inception in 1978 have been: Keyes D. Metcalf and Robert B. Downs (1978): H enriette D. Avram and Fred­ erick G. Kilgour (1979); and Evan I. Farber (1980). The Awards Committee selects persons to re­ ceive the award in accordance with the following guidelines: Purpose: To recognize an individual member of the library profession who has made an out­ standing national or international contribution to academic and research librarianship and library development. Criteria: Individuals nominated should have demonstrated achievements in such areas as: 1. Service to the organized profession through ACRL and related organizations. 2. Significant and influential research on academic or research library service. 3. Publication of a body of scholarly and/or theoretical writing contributing to academic or research library development. 4. Planning and implementing a library pro­ gram of such exemplary quality that it has served as a model for others. 5. Nominee does not have to meet all four criteria stated above. Rules: The award shall be made each year at a time and place to be determined by the ACRL Board of Directors. Announcement of the award shall be made by the ACRL president at a time and place to be determined by the ACRL Board of Directors. If, in the opinion of the Award Committee, no worthy candidate is nominated in a given year, the award will not be made that year. Nominations: Nominations for the award must be returned to the chairperson of the Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee and must be postmarked no later than March 1, 1981. Nominations must be submitted in quin- tuplicate. Nominations must be complete on the application form. The presence of attachments will disqualify the nomination. Secondary letcters will not be considered in the Award Committee’s deliberations. Nature of the Award: The Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award shall consist of $2,000 and an appropriate citation. The Awards Committee for 1981 consists of the following persons: David Kaser (chair), Graduate Library School, Indiana University, Bloomington; Barbara Collinsworth, Macomb County Commun­ ity College, Warren, Michigan; Pearce S. Grove, Western Illinois University Libraries, Macomb, Illinois; Willis M. Hubbard, Hugh Stephens Li­ brary, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri; and David H. Stam, New York Public Library. ■■ ARCHIVES GRANTS A N N O U N C ED The Rockefeller University sponsors grants-in- aid to support projects requiring substantial re­ search in the holdings of the Rockefeller Archive Center. Grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 will be made to graduate students or advanced schol­ ars for the year 1981. Applications for grants dur­ ing 1981 should be made before December 31, 1980; recipients will be announced on or before March 31, 1981. Inquiries about this program and the collec­ tions at the center should be addressed to: Direc­ tor, Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591. ■■ A C R L F ast Job L is tin g Service Due to rising costs and ACRL’s continuing interest in having users of the ACRL Fast Job Listing Service (FJLS) underwrite all of its ex­ penses, ACRL instituted a new FJLS ad rate scale, effective with the September 2 issue (vol. 2, no. 9). New rates are: 1-35 lines: $20 (ACRL members) $25 (nonmembers) 36-45 lines: $25 (ACRL members) $30 (nonmembers) 46-55 lines: $30 (ACRL members) $35 (nonmembers). This scale then increases at the same incre­ ments. THE DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REFERENCE SYSTEM, 1975-1981 THE ANNUAL COLLECTIONS The size and scope of the Annual Collections have grown dramatically since Carrollton Press inaugurated the publication in 1975. The collections include major documents from the CIA, NSC, State and Defense Departments, White House, and other US agencies on such subjects as US foreign relations, military and intelligence operations, national defense, and internal security in the post-World War II era. With the exception of the 1976 Collection (explained below), all of these collections include four quarterly volumes of Abstracts and an annual Cumulative Subject Index. - THE 1975 ANNUAL COLLECTION contains 1,648 documents, abstracted on a total of 330 pages, and indexed under an average of 3.2 headings in the Subject Index. -T H E 1976 ANNUAL COLLECTION is available in three segments of Abstracts (one double issue covering January-June 1976 and two quarterlies) and the annual Index. The 1976 Collection includes approximately 1,850 documents. - THE 1977 ANNUAL COLLECTION contains almost 2,000 documents on 203 microfiche. - THE 1978 ANNUAL COLLECTION is composed of around 2,000 documents which are abstracted on 457 pages and appear on 235 microfiche. - THE 1979 ANNUAL COLLECTION is more comprehensive than any of the previous Annual Collections. THE RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION -T he full texts o f 8,032 Declassified Documents are contained on 1,008 microfiche. - Original abstracts o f the documents appear in two hardcover Abstract volumes, arranged chronologically under names o f issuing agencies. - A single-alphabet Cumulative Subject Index to both the Retrospective and the 1975 Annual Collections is contained in one hardcover volume. Included for the first time in the Retrospective Collection are special groups of documents on Alger Kiss, the Rosenbergs, and Lee Harvey Oswald (including the diary he kept while in the U.S.S.R.). Also included are de­ classified documents from the papers of several presidential aides and advisors such as Chester Bowles, Clark Clifford, C.D. Jackson, General Lucius Clay and others. The Retrospective Collection also contains a number of technical and scientific documents. It is important to note that none of the abstracts or microfiche copies of the documents contained in the Annual Collections are included in the Retrospective Collection. However, all entries from the 1975 Cumulative Subject Index have been merged into a combined Cumulative Subject Index in the Retrospective set in order to provide a single source of subject access for both sets of documents. DDRS WAS CO-WINNER OF THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY A S S O C IA T IO N ’S 1978 “PR O D UC T OF THE YEAR” AWARD HERE ARE EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS OF THE DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REFERENCE SYSTEM -JO U R N A L O F C O N TE M PO R A R Y A SIA , v. 8, no. 4 (1978). Reviewed by G. Kolko, D epartm ent o f History, York University, T oronto, C anada, “Superior to the State D epartm ent’s Foreign Relations seriçs, the System is best compared to the Pentagon Papers, the four most im portant and hitherto unavailable volumes of which are found reproduced here for the first time. But since no equivalent o f the Pentagon Papers for Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, Malaysia, Korea, Cuba, or India has been issued, in fact it is a m ajor new source for these nations as well as China and Japan. Asian questions and nations are probably the most extensively covered, but anyone working seriously on Latin America, Africa, or E uropean studies will also be required to consult the System’s docum ents.” - RQ , Reference and Adult Services Division, ALA, v. 15, no. 4, Sum m er 1976, pp. 353-355. Michael O. Shannon of the Herbert Lehman College, Bronx, New Y ork wrote a comprehensive review of the D D R S in which he stated, “The entire system is characterized by rem arkable simplicity of arrangem ent and ease o f searching, and one hopes th at it may grow in size and extent.” . . . “This is a m ajor research tool to basically archival-type material and should be worth the price for any m ajor research institution that wishes to provide first rate coverage in the fields of recent governm ent, foreign affairs, and politics.” -C H O IC E , Association o f College and Research Libraries, ALA, v. 13, no. 8 (O ctober 1976) unsigned, p. 956. “The catalog and separately available microfiche of the documents themselves form a complete system of inform ation not available elsewhere, neither indexed in the M onthly Catalog nor published by the G.P.O . The catalog, indexed by a form er chief o f C.I. A. indexing operations, is a unique source of inform ation about form erly secret activities, and of great value to the researcher and the large academic or public library.” -B O O K L IST , ALA, v. 72, no. 12 (February 15, 1976) “Reference and Subscription Books Reviews” (unsigned) pp. 875-6. “F o r large academic and public libraries whose patrons do extensive research in subjects in which the government may have a controlling interest, the Declassified D ocum ents Quarterly Catalog and its Index will provide access to materials heretofore unavailable and even unknow n, although their existence may have been assumed or suspected. In the expectation that future issues will appear and th at coverage will expand, the Declassified D ocum ents Quarterly Catalog with its Cumulative Subject Index is recommended for these large libraries or any library whose patrons require access to this type of inform ation.” -G O V E R N M E N T PU BLIC A TIO N S REVIEW , v. 3, no. 2 (1976). The following was extracted from a review by Professor Robin Higham, D epartm ent of History, Kansas State University. Professor Higham is also au th o r o f Official Histories (1970) and an Editor o f M ilitary Affairs and Aerospace Historian. “The great advantage of what C arrollton Press is doing is that it provides the researcher and the librarian with one compact set of Declassified Documents complete with finding aids. The sooner the system is brought to the attention o f scholars the better.” -S E R IA L S REVIEW , July/S eptem ber, 1975, p. 51. Quoted below are excerpts from a review by Bernard A. Block, Documents L ibrarian at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. “The C arrollton Press has made a strong beginning toward developing a good collection o f declassified documents, well cataloged, abstracted, and indexed. The im portance of such material for historians, political scientists, and other researchers cannot be overestimated. The Declassified Documents microfiche collection and related catalogs and indexes are highly recommended for academic and public research libraries.” Your patrons will want access to the entire system — So use this coupon to make certain your coverage will be complete. 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