ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 102 / C b R L News Research: Essays for a Century. Richard D. John­ son, ed. (1977). “...a must for all library school stu­ dents interested in academ ic lib rarian sh ip .” — ARBA 78. 276p. 0247-2 (use order code 3196-0). Limited quantities. $15. •N o. 41—Women View Librarianship: Nine Perspectives. Kathryn Renfro Lundy, ed. (1980). “It is satisfying to read their considered responses to questions ranging from ideas about administration and personal career choices to developing library school c u rric u la an d advice to b eg in n in g professionals.” —College & Research Libraries. 99p. 3251-7. $8. •N o. 42—The Spirit of Inquiry in Library Sci­ ence: The Graduate Library School at Chicago, 1921-1951. John V. Richardson Jr. (1982). “ ...a significant book in library education and an exam­ ple of painstaking historical research.”—ARBA 84. 238p. 3273-8. Limited quantities. $35. •N o. 43—The Landscape of Literatures: Use of Subject Collections in a University Library. Paul Metz. (1983). “Metz provides...an im portant use study... by attempting to identify the subject litera­ ture of interest to faculty and students in various academic disciplines.”—RQ. 157p. 3286-X. Lim­ ited quantities. $30. •N o. 44—The Carnegie Corporation and the D evelopm ent of A m erican College L ib raries, 1928-1941. Neil A. Radford. (1984). Provides a useful historical perspective on collection analysis and external funding by studying the impact of Carnegie grants for collection development. 272p. 3295-9. Limited quantities. $29.95. •N o. 45—English and American Literature: Sources and Strategies for Collection Develop­ m ent. W illiam M cPheron, ed. 217p. 0476-9. $29.95. ■ ■ How to publish in ACRL: Non-serial publications Are you working on a survey, directory, pam ­ phlet, bibliography, or any other project with pub­ lication potential? Then you need to be aware of the publication procedures for non-serial publica­ tions developed by the ACRL Publications Com­ mittee. Your publication proposal will go through the following steps on the way to becoming an ACRL or ALA publication. Step One. Fill out a “Preliminary Publication Information Form ,” available from ACRL Head­ quarters, early in the planning stages of your proj­ ect. This form asks for basic information about the scope and content of the proposed publication and the individual(s) responsible for developing it. Send the completed form to Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL’s publications officer, at ACRL Headquar­ ters. Step Two. The ACRL publications officer re­ views the proposal and offers ALA Publishing Ser­ vices the first chance of accepting the project as an ALA publication. This “right of first refusal” is specified in the operating agreement between ALA and its divisions. Step Three. ACRL’s Publications Subcommittee on Non-Serial Proposals and the ACRL publica­ tions officer review the content and viability of the proposal and make a recommendation as to its fea­ sibility. (In some cases, an outside reader with ex­ pertise in the subject area will be asked to review the publication for editorial content. This review will next be considered by the Subcommittee and the program officer.) The Subcommittee will re­ view and act upon publication proposals through­ out the year, as well as at ALA annual conferences and midwinter meetings. Step Four. After reviewing the recommenda­ tions of the Subcommittee (and any outside review­ ers) the ACRL publications officer then accepts, rejects, refers back to ALA Publishing Services, or asks for further development of each proposal from the author or sponsoring body. Step Five. If your proposal is accepted, submit your completed manuscript to ACRL H eadquar­ ters for further review by the Subcommittee and the ACRL publications officer. For further inform ation, contact Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL Publications Officer, ACRL/ALA, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; (312) 944-6780, x287. ■ ■ Planning grants for public programs on the Columbian Quincentenary The 500th anniversary of Christopher Colum­ bus’s first voyage to the New World will be ob­ served internationally in 1992. In honor of this oc­ casion th e N atio n al E n d o w m en t for th e Humanities is holding a special competition for planning grants in Public Humanities Projects. Projects should focus on the scholarly issues raised by the Columbian Quincentenary. Colleges and February 1988 / 103 universities, museum s, historical societies, a r ­ chives, libraries, community organizations, and other non-profit institutions are encouraged to ap­ ply. The NEH Public Humanities Projects offers sup­ port for symposia, film series w ith colloquia, de­ bates, reading and discussion groups, and panel ex­ hibits th a t bring the hum anities to the general public. For this special competition the program is especially interested in collaborative projects or projects th a t com bine various form ats for pro­ grams addressing out-of-school audiences. Awards in this competition will assist applicants in planning non-curricular humanities programs for adults or young people. These activities should provide the general public w ith programs explor­ ing such broad topics as: • th e im pact of the voyages of discovery on such fields as cartography and geography and the trans­ formation of scientific knowledge; • th e tradition of Utopian thought in Western literature and the efforts to realize such ideas in the New World; • th e development of Latin American literature and art or the im pact of the New W orld on Euro­ pean culture; •th e growth of New W orld societies and institu­ tions and the diplom atic and cultural relations among the United States, C anada, and the nations of Latin America. Non-profit organizations w ith resources in the humanities and the ability to reach general audi­ ences are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to those applicants who outline an effective strategy for reaching national, regional, or metropolitan audiences. Planning grants of up to $20,000 will be offered for projects ranging from six months to one year. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 18, 1988. Contact: Public Hum anities Projects, Columbian Quincentenary Planning Grants, Divi­ sion of General Programs, Room 426, National E n­ dowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20506; (202) 786- 0271. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • Duke University, D urham , North Carolina, has received the archives of the J. W alter Thom p­ son advertising agency, the country’s oldest such firm . T he gift includes a th ree-year, $100,000 grant from the J. W alter Thompson Foundation to support the processing and maintenance of the ar­ chives. Contained among more than three million items are diaries, correspondence and research p a ­ pers from the company’s beginnings, documenting the grow th of the advertising industry and the worldwide expansion of American corporations. Some 1.5 million prin t advertisements, from J. W alter Thompson and its competitors, make up the bulk of the archive. Also included are scripts of radio shows d atin g from the 1920s, w hen th e scripts as well as the ads were w ritten by agencies. Featured are programs starring Bing Crosby, E d­ gar Bergen, and Rudy Vallee, as well as several ra ­ dio soap operas. Also of note is a le tte r from Eleanor Roosevelt in which she refuses to endorse a product in an ad campaign because she would have been identified only as the wife of President Frank­ lin D. Roosevelt. The archive’s extensive market- research materials, including analysis of foreign markets, will be of particular interest to scholars in sociology and psychology. • Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, has received the library of Nick John Topetzes, a re­ tired Veterans’ Administration official and former professor at the University of W isconsin. The School’s Cotsidas-Tonna L ibrary received more than 2,000 books and $1,000 to m aintain the col­ lection. • The Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., has acquired a collection of music and literary manuscripts of Karl Weigl, an Austrian composer who im m igrated to the United States in 1938. The gift, from the late Hans Moldenhauer of Spokane, Washington, includes more than 7,000 pages of sketches and com plete m anuscripts of W eigl’s works spanning his entire career. Included is his prize-winning symphonic cantata, Weltfeier, and his last symphony. The m aterial, most of which is unpublished, will be added to the Moldenhauer Archives, established in 1986. • Michigan State University, East Lansing, has acquired a 1517 edition of the Libro della natura di cavalli by Giordano Ruffo, stablemaster at the Ital­ ian court of Frederick II. This widely translated work on the care and breeding of horses is regarded as the starting point for the regeneration of West­ ern veterinary medicine during the Renaissance, borrowing heavily from Arabic sources.