ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 8 News From the Field A C Q U I S I T I O N S • A rare first edition of Friar Ambrosius Calepinus’ Dictionari um, published in 1502, has been added to the Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at the I n d i a n a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y Cunningham Memorial Library in commemora­ tion of the inauguration of Dr. Richard G. Landini as IS U ’s eighth president. The work was acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., rare book dealer. Friar Calepinus of Bergamo, Italy, based this landmark Dictionari um on the pioneer work “Suidas,” which was reportedly compiled by 1,000 or more authors. The Suidas Lexicon Graecum, first edition published in 1499, is a work held in the ISU Cordell Collection of rare dictionaries. Friar Calepinus’ work, known as the “Calepine,” is one of the most influential dic­ tionaries of all times because of its direct influ­ ence upon the development of the English lan­ guage dictionary through Thomas Elyot’s Dic­ tionary, 1538 in Latin-English. During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the influence of Calepine. The Dictionaríum, which went through some 200 editions, continued to be printed through­ out the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was gradually augmented to include such lan­ guages as Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, Ger­ man, Spanish, and English. • On October 24, 1975, the U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s System Regents took a major step toward establishing U T Austin as the leading institu­ tion for the study of Texas and southwestern history and one of the three or four leading in­ stitutions for the study of western history. Acquisition of about 11,000 manuscripts, maps, rare books and pamphlets from the E ber­ stadt Collection was begun with the appropria­ tion of $500,000 from the Available University Fund as a down payment. Additional payments are to be made in 1976 and 1977 to complete the $1.4 million purchase. Among the treasures in the collection is the manuscript memorial demanding separate state­ hood for Texas, drawn up by the Texas colo­ nists in 1833 and carried to Mexico City by Stephen F . Austin, which resulted in Austin’s imprisonment. It is considered second only to the Texas Declaration of Independence in its importance for Texas history. Bibliophiles say it could easily bring as much as $300,000 at auction. The other 1,200 manuscripts are considered unique, and many are of surpassing importance, including eighteenth-century census reports for Texas and Coahuila and a lengthy report on Texas missions by Father Margil de Jesus. Manuscripts of Sam Houston, William B. Travis, James Bowie, and Stephen F . Austin are included. Among the printed items, many of which exist in unique copies, are such rarities as the extended set of Mexican laws by Dublan y Lon­ zano and the fifty-eight-volume extended set of Gammel’s “Laws of Texas,” of which no oth­ er copy is known. The collection purchased by the university from the Jenkins Company of Austin includes Texana; materials relating to Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mexico, and the Mexican W ar; and the Confederacy. The section on the Southwest covers the westward movement of the American people in the nineteenth century, for which the settle­ ment of Texas and the resulting expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific was the critical motiva­ tion. The items in that section include material on every aspect of the western movement relat­ ed to Texas: the western states from Oklahoma to California; the old Southwest, Arkansas, and Missouri; Louisiana and the southern states; overland narratives; Indians; military opera­ tions; railroads. John H. Jenkins, Austin rare book dealer and publisher, bought the entire rare book and manuscript collection of Edward Eberstadt & Sons, formerly of 888 Madison Ave., New York, last summer. At that time, Mr. Jenkins said that since the 1920s, Edward Eberstadt had set aside the best rare books he could find. After his death and that of his elder son (in 1 9 7 4 ), the stock was moved to New Jersey and the firm went into semi-retirement. • Recent additions to the U n i v e r s i t y o C a l i f o r n i a , Davis library’s dramatic arts hold­ ings include unusual items acquired from the now disbanded Firehouse Theatre and from the still internationally famous Living Theatre. The latter company is one of the three U.S. theatri­ cal groups to be invited to perform at this year’s Venice Biennale. To the Firehouse Theatre archives the li­ brary has added several short silent films by Marlow Hotchkiss, an avant-garde filmmaker who has recently lectured in the San Francisco Bay Area. During his association with the F ire­ house, there were multimedia experiments with film projected on the walls of the auditorium while a play took place onstage. Another view of the Firehouse activities is given in a filmed television interview with Syd Walter, director f 9 and actor, whose voluminous notebooks are al­ ready in the collection. There are also numerous photographs by the Living Theatre’s former photographer, Gian­ francesco Mantegna, illustrating productions of Genet’s T he Maids, Brown’s Brig, and Paradise Now, Frankenstein, and an adaptation of Brecht’s Antigone. Also in this major acquisition are original typescript notebooks for Paradise Now, one of the Living Theatre’s renowned spectacles. Of interest are the handwritten changes. Scholars may want to compare this typescript with the book which has since been published. The genesis of this production is strange in that the company performed without script, nothing being written down until months later. Other valuable scripts purchased are the sev­ eral versions of Judith Malina’s development of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story into a po­ litical concept. This becam e a sensational Liv­ ing Theatre production. The original small, fine pen-and-ink sketches by Malina are a part of the purchase. The Living Theatre trove even contains ma­ terials relating to very recent work, such as parts of the vast cycle projected as T he Legacy o f Cain. Judith Malina, coleader with her hus­ band Julian Beck, has been quoted as saying she will live to produce 150 plays in this cycle even if it kills her. The library now has several versions, manuscript and typescript, of various plays in the cycle, two of which were written for performance in the notorious slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil. A related collection was obtained from an old friend of the Becks, Karl Bissinger. He was a society photographer and cafe owner who turned anarchist and pacifist, along with many members of the Living Theatre. His archives contain much pertaining to the antiwar activi­ ties of that group, including letters from Julian Beck in jail. The recent acquisitions join earlier purchases from the Universal Theatre Movement Reper­ tory, from Ron Davis (founder of the San Fran­ cisco Mime Troupe) and from the Mime Troupe itself, making, altogether, a huge as­ semblage of material for research in the activist and experimental theatre of the last two dec­ ades. • A special collection of books of Scotti influence and significance was dedicated at a meeting of the Friends of the F l o r i d a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y Library on October 9, 1975. The books, dealing chiefly with history, biography, genealogy, and travel, have been gathered from a number of sources, including a gift of 200 volumes from the private library of John Mackay Shaw. According to a new pictorial bookplate provided by the donors, the collection s is designed “to honor the Scottish folk who conquered the wilderness of Northwest Flori­ da” in the early 1800s. Present at the meeting were many people of Scottish ancestry, includ­ ing descendants of these original settlers. One of these, Mr. Angus Laird, is currently presi­ dent of the Friends of the F S U Library. Mr. Shaw is the donor and, since 1960, has been the curator of the 20,000-volum e poetry collec­ tion which bears his name. T he new collection will also be under his care. A checklist of the books in the collection is available upon request from Dr. John M. Shaw, Florida State University, Robert Manning Stro­ zier Library, Tallahassee, F L 32306. • One of the first samples of printing in the Pacific Northwest has been donated to the U n i v e r s i t y o f I d a h o Library. It is a palm­ sized book of Nez Perce hymns, transliterated from that language and printed by missionary Henry Spalding (1 8 0 3 -1 8 7 4 ) in 1942. Rev. Spalding and his wife, the first missionaries to come to Idaho, settled at Lapwai, among the Nez Perce, in 1836. The hymnal is from the first press in this part of the country and the third in the entire West. Only three other copies are known to exist. Spalding intended these hymnals for distribu­ tion among the Indians who were learning to read their language in the roman alphabet. The press itself was brought to the wilderness fol­ lowing Spalding’s request of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for a press to aid his Indian instruction. I t was brought by ship from Honolulu to F t. Van­ couver, Washington. From there it was loaded into a canoe, sent by the Columbia River to Fort W alla W alla, and then shipped up the Snake River to the Lapwai Mission, arriving in May 1839. Two manuscript notebooks, believed to be in Spalding’s handwriting, were also donated by Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Brock. Mr. Brock is an accountant and long-time member of the L i­ brary Associates, University of Idaho. • One of two known copies of an important revolutionary Virginia broadside has been pre­ sented to the U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a by Mrs. Rea E . Hopper of Los Angeles. This rare broadside contains the association agreed upon h by delegates of the counties at the Virginia Convention of August 1 -6 , 1774, which was held in Williamsburg. The August Association broadside joins two other important revolutionary Virginia issues from the Williamsburg press, in 1774, the Vir­ ginia Association of May 27 in the McGregor Library, and Jefferson’s summary view of the rights of British Americans, which was acquired by the library a few years ago. These three 10 items will be included in an exhibition concern­ ing the American Revolution which will open next July. • The James A. Rogers Library at F r a n c i s M a r i o n C o l l e g e , Florence, South Carolina, has been designated to receive more than 1,200 volumes of South Caroliniana, Americana, E n ­ glish history, wildlife, and hunting books from the library of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Quat­ tlebaum. The volumes, many of which are old and rare, are currently housed at Arundel, the Quattlebaum’s eighteenth-century Georgetown rice plantation, and will soon be located in the Arundel Room of the James A. Rogers Library at Francis Marion College. Included are 2 9 0 titles of South Caroliniana, of which 134 are listed in J . H. Easterby’s G uide to the Study an d R eading o f South C aro­ lina History, Part 2, A G eneral Classified B ibli­ ography ( 1 9 5 3 ) . Also, 80 of the titles appear in Sabin, including Adair’s History o f th e Amer­ ican Indians ( 1 7 7 5 ) , B otta’s History o f the War o f the In depen den ce ( 1 8 4 0 ) , Carroll’s Histori­ cal C ollections o f South Carolina ( 1 8 3 6 ) , Cooper’s History o f North A m erica ( 1 7 9 5 ) , E l­ liott’s Carolina Sports ( 1 8 6 7 ) , Galloway’s L et­ ters to a N obelm an ( 1 7 8 0 ) , Hewatt’s Historical Account o f the Rise and Progress o f the C ol­ onies o f South Carolina an d G eorgia ( 1 7 7 9 ) , Marshall’s L ife o f W ashington ( 1 8 0 5 ) , Ram­ say’s History o f th e R evolution o f South C aro­ lina ( 1 7 8 5 ) , Russell’s History o f th e War ( 1 8 1 5 ) , Rycaut’s History o f th e Turkish E m ­ pire ( 1 6 8 0 ) , Cooper and McCord’s Statutes at L arg e o f S.C. ( 1 8 3 6 ) , Public Law s o f th e State o f S.C. (1 7 9 0 ) and Stedman’s History o f the Origin, Progress, and Termination o f the Ameri­ can W ar ( 1 7 9 4 ) . The Arundel Library has been described as one of the most significant private collections in the state. Its acquisition by the college gives great impetus to the development of the library collection of the new college, now in its sixth year of operation. • Scholars and others interested in the inter­ relationships of business, government, and the press have a new set of papers to explore. The papers of Eugene Meyer, publisher of the W ash­ ington Post from 1933 to 1946, have been turned over to the L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s by the Meyer family of Mt. Kisco, New York. Among the material are some 55,000 items including correspondence, government service files, speeches, a World W ar I I diary of his son, Eugene Meyer, I I I , and an incomplete copy of Mr. Meyer’s oral history transcript made for Columbia University. Eugene Meyer had three careers— invest­ ment banker, national public servant, and Washington Post publisher. These are well documented in the papers. There are memoranda on basic principles of management, efforts to regulate the New York stock exchange, and the effect of war on foreign trade in 1914. Because of Meyer’s prominent role as managing director of the World W ar I W ar Finance Corporation, his files are particularly significant. Also signifi­ cant are correspondence from his days as direc­ tor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1 9 2 9 -3 3 . Correspondence for the years when Meyer was W ashington Post publisher cover politics from the New Deal through the Eisenhower administration. They include commentary of Joseph E . Davies, John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, John J . McCloy, Henry A. W allace, and Sumner Welles. The collection also includes letters from poets Archibald M acLeish and Carl Sandburg, pho­ tographer Edward Steichen, and the Freer Gal­ lery’s Charles Freer. T he Eugene Meyer papers join those of Ag­ nes Meyer, his wife, already in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. • An extensive collection of Irish literatur has been given to the S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y Libraries by the late James A. Healy of New York. T he gift includes over 1,000 books and periodicals, plus approximately 3 ,2 0 0 original letters and manuscripts by James Joyce, W il­ liam Butler Yeats, Ernest A. Boyd, James B. Connolly, Oliver St. John Gogarty, George W . Russell ( A .E .) , and other contemporaries of the Irish literary movement. Many titles are printed in limited editions by the Cuala and Dun Em er presses, the enterprise of W . B. Yeats’ sisters, Elizabeth and Lily. Nearly all copies are inscribed to James Healy, and sev­ eral contain long inscriptions by W illiam B. Yeats. During his years of collecting Irish art and literature, Healy corresponded with some of the writers represented in the collection. He also encouraged them to travel to the U.S. and participated in organizing lecture tours for them. Healy’s interest in the Cuala Press ex­ tended beyond their printed books and includ­ ed an appreciation of the hand-colored broad­ sides and cards which are also in the collection at Stanford. W hile engaged in European relief work in 1914 Healy met Herbert Hoover and collaborated with him in relief activities. A col­ lection of Healy’s acquisitions on Irish history was presented to the Hoover Institution several years ago. The significance o f the Healy collection of Irish literature lies in the hundreds of unpub­ lished letters and notes in first editions. Corre­ spondence o f George W . Russell is especially important and is embellished with sketches made by the poet. These materials, together with the printed books, broadsides, photo­ e 11 graphs, and ephemera will provide students and scholars with a major resource for research. M E E T I N G S J a n u a r y 2 8 - F e b r u a r y 1 : The fourth annual ARLIS/NA C o n f e r e n c e will be held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. The first phase of the Standards Committee report will be pre­ sented at the General Session. The conference will be centered on workshops dealing with problems of special interest groups (visual re­ sources, architecture, and cataloging and index­ ing systems), as well as those of type of library groups (academic, public, and museum). An open workshop will be held on Thursday morning, January 2 9 , on “Professionalism and the Second Degree.” For further information, contact: Judith A. Hoffberg, ARLIS/NA, P.O. Box .3 6 9 2 , Glendale, CA 9 1 2 0 1 . F e b r u a r y 1 6 -2 0 : O C L C W o r k s h o p . The Kent State University Library announces a five­ day intensive workshop on OCLC. Planned chiefly for middle management and systems personnel in institutions about to begin network participation, it will also be of interest to li­ brarians and library school faculty concerned with networks and with interinstitutional bib­ liographic control. Each participant will be guaranteed individ­ ualized hours working on-line. Resource people in a number of remote locations will be avail­ able as consultants and lecturers, via the uni­ versity’s telelecture capabilities. Topics will include: “The OCLC System”; “The MARC Format” (as the system’s biblio­ graphic m edium ); “The O CLC Terminal” (op­ eration, possibilities, limitations, printing at­ tachm ents); “In-House Procedures” (work flow adaptations, management im plications); and “Teaching Methods” (sharing this complex of information with others). For maximum personalization, the group will be limited to thirty registrants. Special consid­ eration will be given to individuals in libraries whose “on-line” date is imminent. For further information contact: Anne Marie Allison, Asst. Prof., Library Admin., University Libraries, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. M a r c h 8 -1 2 : The L i b r a r y B i n d i n g I n s t i ­ t u t e C o n s e r v a t i o n W o r k s h o p will be held at the New England Document Conservation Center, located at Merrimack Textile Museum, 800 Massachusetts Ave., North Andover, MA 01845. George M. Cunha is director/conserva­ tor of the center, a nonprofit organization, and Robert C. Morrison, Jr., is director of educa­ tion. The technical aspects of the seminar will be dependent upon the technical background of the participants as to which information is re­ quested. T he program will consist of both lec­ tures and workshop. Arrangements have been made for lodging and lectures with Boston University at the Os­ good Hill Conference Center, a nonprofit entity, which is located in North Andover. The cost of the seminar workshop is $275, which includes tuition, room and board ( four nights, three meals a day) at the Osgood Hill Conference Center, and the text. The course is limited to twenty-five. To par­ ticipate send your reservation form with deposit of $50.00 to Library Binding Institute (deposit returned if reservation cancelled prior to F e b ­ ruary 1, 1 9 7 6 ), balance to be paid on or before March 1, 1976. For further information contact Library Binding Institute, 50 Congress St., Suite 630, Boston, MA 02109; ( 6 1 7 ) 227-9614. M a r c h 2 3 -2 5 : A SL IB in association with six European organizations will conduct E U R IM 2, a conference on the application of research in information services and libraries at RAI Inter­ national Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Nether­ lands. Further information is available from Conference Organiser, A SL IB, 3 Belgrave Square, London SW 1X 8P L, England. A p r i l 8-11: An I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r ­ e n c e o n A r t P e r i o d i c a l s , sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the Art Libraries Society o f North America will b e held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Uni­ versity of Sussex. An exhibition of art period­ icals will be on display at the Victoria and Al­ bert Museum in spring 1976 to commemorate this international conference. The conference itself is open primarily to art librarians. For further information, contact: Peter R. B. Moore, Tutor Librarian, Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, 7 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., England. A p r i l 2 5 -2 8 : The thirteenth annual C l i n i c o n L i b r a r y A p p l i c a t i o n s o f D a t a P r o c e s s ­ i n g will be conducted by the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, at the M ini Union on the Urbana campus. The theme of this clinic will be “The Economics of L i­ brary Automation.” In an era of double-digit inflation and re­ duced budgets, libraries are being forced to examine automation costs very carefully. Can an automated system be less expensive than the manual system it replaces? Are there objective measures of the dollar value of improved ser­ vice? W hen can a library justify independent development of a computer system? Papers at the 1976 clinic will attempt to answer these 12 questions and to describe the economics of spe­ cific library applications. J. L. Divilbiss, associate professor of library science, is chairman of the committee planning the clinic. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Edward Kalb, 116 Mini Hall, Univer­ sity of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. The com­ plete program of the clinic will be available by November 1975. M a y 5 - 7 : The annual meeting of the S o c i e t y o f S o u t h w e s t A r c h i v i s t s will be held in San Antonio, Texas. For further information, con­ tact M r . Sam Sizer, Curator, Special Collec­ tions, University of Arkansas Library, Fayette­ ville, AR 72701. M a y 6 - 8 : M i d w e s t e r n A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i ­ a n s C o n f e r e n c e (M A L C ) Twenty-first An­ nual Meeting, University of Northern Iowa L i­ brary, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. Contact person: Douglas Hieber, Head of Circulation, Universi­ ty of Northern Iowa Library, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. M a y 9 -2 1 : The College of Library and Infor­ mation Services, University of Maryland, is planning the tenth annual L i b r a r y A d m i n i s ­ t r a t o r s D e v e l o p m e n t P r o g r a m . Dr. John Rizzo, professor of management at Western Michigan University, will serve as the director. As in the past nine summers, participants will include senior administrative personnel of large library systems— public, research, academic, special, governmental, and school— from the United States and Canada. The faculty is made up of well-known scholars, educators, manage­ ment consultants, and lecturers drawn from uni­ versities, government, and consulting fields. Seminar sessions will concentrate on the prin­ cipal administrative issues which senior man­ agers encounter. Leadership, motivation, com­ munication, personnel policy, decision making, problem solving, financial planning and control, performance appraisal, the impact of technol­ ogy, and the planning of change are among the issues considered in lecture, case analysis, group discussion, and seminar. The two-week resident program will again be held at the University of Maryland’s Don­ aldson Brown Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, a serene twenty-acre estate overlooking the Sus­ quehanna River and offering a variety of rec­ reational facilities and an informal atmosphere conducive to study, reflection, and discussion. Those interested in further information are in­ vited to address inquiries to Mrs. Effie T. Knight, Administrative Assistant, Library Ad­ ministrators Development Program, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, M D 20742. M a y 1 0 -1 1 : S y m p o s i u m o n t h e B o o k A r t s at the University of Alabama. Among the speakers will be R. Hunter Middleton (Cherry­ burn Press) of Chicago; Carolyn Hammer (A n­ vil Press and King Library P ress), Lexington, Ky,; William Haynes (Ashantilly Press) of Darien, Ga.; Susan Thompson, an authority on William Morris, of Columbia University; and Frank Anderson, Librarian of Wofford College and the compiler of Private Presses in the Southeastern United States. Also included will be discussions and demonstrations of papermak­ ing, marbleizing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and type design. M a y 1 0 -2 8 : T y p o g r a p h i c W o r k s h o p , a three-week introduction to fine printing and book design. F or further information about both the symposium and the workshop write James D. Ramer, Dean, Graduate School of L i­ brary Service, P.O. Box 6242, University, AL 35486. M a y 1 3 -1 5 : Eastern Michigan University’s Center of Educational Resources has scheduled the sixth annual C o n f e r e n c e o n L i b r a r y O r i e n t a t i o n f o r A c a d e m i c L i b r a r i e s on the E M U campus, Ypsilanti, Michigan. The theme of the conference will be “Library Instruction in the ’70s: A State of the Art.” The program will feature speakers, panels, discussions, and an exhibit of library instruction materials spon­ sored by Project L O E X . The registration fee is $55.00. Librarians, administrators, faculty, and stu­ dents are invited. Registration will b e limited to 100 persons. For further information, please write to: Hannelore Rader, Orientation Librari­ an, Center of Educational Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, M I 48197. M a y 1 7 -1 9 : CU M REC , the College and Uni­ versity Machine Records Conference, will hold its twenty-first annual meeting at the Nether­ land Hilton Hotel in Cincinnati. Host organization will be SW O RCC , the Southwestern Ohio Regional Computer Center operated by the University of Cincinnati and Miami University at Oxford as a consortium to provide computer services support to the aca­ demic and administrative functions of both uni­ versities and a number of other nonprofit orga­ nizations. C U M REC ’76 theme will be “Sharing-Key to the Future.” Papers by delegates will explore primarily three interest areas: data processing, admissions and records, and business or finan­ cial affairs. The conference is expected to at­ tract about 9 00 participants from 300 member institutions, public and private, varying widely in size. Information may be obtained from Robert 13 R. Caster, SW O RC C , Medical Services Build­ ing, 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267, telephone ( 5 1 3 ) 475-5069, or Jack Southard, Administrative D ata Processing, Miami Univer­ sity, Oxford, OH 45056, telephone (5 1 3 ) 529- 5322. M a y 1 7 -2 1 : In conjunction with the Ad­ vanced Management Centre of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University, the School of Library Service is sponsoring a week- long S e m i n a r f o r L i b r a r i a n s i n M i d d l e - M a n a g e m e n t P o s i t i o n s at Dalhousie Univer­ sity. Registration will be limited to a maximum o f twenty, and it is expected that those enroll­ ing for the seminar will be in middle manage­ ment positions in their libraries or information centres. The two main themes of the seminar will focus on “The Art of Communications” and “Leadership and Motivation.” A manager’s abil­ ity to communicate is a critical factor in his or her effectiveness. The aim of the seminar will be to sharpen that ability and improve inter­ personal skills by providing solid theory and a series of practical problem-solving exercises. Leadership ability is the most sought after skill by management. The seminar will be an inten­ sive, practical, “how to” program for improving leadership skills, to identify each individual’s own style of leadership, and to learn how to get more productive results from subordinates. The seminar leader will be Professor John Dougall, director of the Advanced Management Centre, who will be assisted by other members of his staff. Professor Dougall directed the school’s very successful one-day workshop for alumni in Decem ber 1973. The cost for this seminar will be $75.00. This price will include lunch each day at the D al­ housie Faculty Club and an opening reception there on the evening of Monday, May 17. Ac­ commodations have been reserved for delegates at Shirreff Hall on the Dalhousie Campus. The rates are single room $8 and double $10 per night. Any inquiries concerning the seminar please contact: Bernadette Coyle, Assistant to the D i­ rector for Continuing Education, c/o School of Library Service, Killam Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8. J u n e 2 1 -2 5 : The A m e r i c a n T h e o l o g i c a l L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its thirtieth an­ nual conference at the Calvin Theological Sem­ inary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Further in­ formation may be secured from: The Reverend Erich R. W . Schultz, University Librarian, W il­ frid Laurier University, W aterloo, Ontario, Canada N 2L 2C5. J u l y 2 6 - A u g u s t 2 0 : The tenth annual A r chives I n s t i t u t e at the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia, will include general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration; experi­ ence in research use; management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Program focuses upon an integrated archives— records management approach to records keeping and features lectures, seminars, and supervised lab­ oratory work. Instructors are experienced ar­ chivists and records managers from a variety of institutions. Subjects include appraisal, ar­ rangement, description, reference services, rec­ ords control and scheduling, preservation tech­ niques, microfilm, manuscripts, educational ser­ vices, among others. F ee: $48 0 for those wish­ ing six quarter hours graduate credit from Emory University; $175 for noncredit partici­ pants. A certificate is awarded to those who successfully complete the institute course. Housing is available at a modest rate. For further information write to: Archives Institute, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA 30334. M I S C E L L A N Y • College and university librarians in four­ year accredited institutions will have an oppor­ tunity to develop innovative projects designed to improve the services and increase the use of their libraries under a new program approved by the Council on Library Resources. The L i b r a r y S e r v i c e E n h a n c e m e n t P r o ­ c r a m proposes to stimulate a variety of activi­ ties which, it is hoped, will result in the more imaginative, effective involvement of the aca­ demic library in the teaching/learning process and will strengthen its educational role as an active participant with classroom faculty, rather than as simply a service adjunct. Under the program a staff member who has a broad knowledge of the library and its clien­ tele, as well as a strong interest in improving library services, will be relieved o f normal duties for the academic year 1 9 7 6 -7 7 . Designat­ ed “project librarian,” the staff member will de­ vote full time, on campus and off, to exploring with faculty, students, and administration ways in which the library can more fully satisfy their needs, and to developing programs which enhance the library’s position in the academic life of the university. The council will provide an amount equiva­ lent to the salary and normal benefits of the project librarian up to $20,000, in each of ap­ proximately ten institutions. The budgeted funds thus released are to be used to bring a beginning professional into the library to help fill the gap caused by the ab­ sence of the project librarian from normal duties. The balance will be used for travel and All you may ever need to know about the SCIENCE CITATION INDEX® but never found time If you've heard about the S cience Citation Index, w ondered how it works or com pares w ith traditional subject indexes, here's your chance to get the full story. A new, com prehensive booklet discusses every facet of this unique indexing system. And it’s available to you without cost or obligation. Just off press, this booklet is full of facts, figures, theory and how-to-use-it information. For example, you'll find discussions of: • How the SCI® em ploys citation and Permuterm® subject indexing to avoid use of am biguous terminology. • How the SCI covers over 90% of the significant scientific and technical journal literature. • What is citation indexing? • How the S C /‘s sophisticated, com puter-based information processing reduces the tim e lag between original publication and indexing to a bare minimum. • How to perform four basic types of literature searches— with sam ple indexing entries shown in detail. So if you want to know all about the SCI, now’s the time to ask. Send for your free booklet or ask for any reasonable number you may need for your organization. to ask. 18 incidental expenses connected with the en­ hancement project. The Library Service Enhancement Program complements the joint Council on Library R e­ sources/National Endowment for the Humani­ ties College Library Program, which thus far has provided more than $1 million to twenty- three institutions, each of which has contribut­ ed an equal amount for its five-year project. Most of these institutions have developed suc­ cessful library orientation programs. Others have discovered methods of involving the li­ brary in the undergraduate classroom. The new Library Service Enhancement Pro­ gram provides an opportunity for libraries to take full advantage of highly qualified, imagina­ tive, service-oriented librarians already on their staffs. The program is another expression of the council’s continuing interest in the professional development of individual librarians. It is be­ lieved that their release from routine duties for a year, with the opportunity to develop and project their own ideas, will stimulate their pro­ fessional growth. Details regarding application procedures may be obtained by writing to the Library Service Enhancement Program, Council on Library R e­ sources, 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 620, Washing­ ton, DC 20036. The deadline for applications for the 1976-77 academic year will be Febru­ ary 15, 1976. The Council on Library Resources, Inc. is a private, operating foundation which, through directly administered programs as well as grants to and contracts with other organiza­ tions, seeks to aid in the solution of problems of libraries generally and of academic and re­ search libraries in particular. The council was established in 1956 with support from the Ford Foundation, from which it continues to derive its funding. • A s y s t e m a t i c e f f o r t t o p r e s e r v e t h e m a jo s o u r c e s f o r s tu d y o f C a r p a t h o - R u t h e n i a n l i f e in t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s h a s b e e n a n n o u n c e d b y t h e B y z a n t i n e R i t e R u t h e n i a n B i s h o p s o f A m e r i ­ c a a n d t h e I m m i g r a t i o n H i s t o r y R e s e a r c h C e n t e r o f t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f M in n e s o t a . T h e j o i n t p r o g r a m w ill m ic r o f i lm t h e p r e s s o f t h e C a r p a t h o - R u t h e n i a n p e o p l e a n d m a k e th is r e ­ s o u r c e a v a i l a b l e f o r u s e b y s c h o l a r s i n v e s t i g a t ­ i n g t h e ethnic f a c t o r i n A m e r i c a n h is t o r y . The B y z a n t i n e R i t e P r o v i n c e , l e d b y A r c h b is h o p S t e p h e n K o c is k o a n d B i s h o p s M i c h a e l D u d i c k a n d E m i l M i h a l i k , w i l l s u p p o r t t h e p r o je c t w i t h a g r a n t o f $12,500. T h i s s u m w i ll b e d o u b le d u n d e r a g i f t s - a n d - m a t c h i n g g r a n t t o t h e I m m i ­ g r a t i o n H i s t o r y R e s e a r c h Center f r o m t h e N a ­ t i o n a l E n d o w m e n t f o r t h e H u m a n i t i e s . T h e c e n ­ t e r w ill a d m i n i s t e r t h e p r o je c t . A committee of six scholars has been ap­ pointed to advise the project. They are Dr. Paul Magocsi, the Harvard Society of Fellows; the Very Rev. Raymond Misulich, chancellor of the Diocese of Passaic; Edward Kasinec, li­ brarian of the Harvard Ukrainian Research In ­ stitute; Rev. Athanasius Pekar, OSBM, of the faculty of SS, Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Pittsburgh; Rev. Stepehen Veselenak, OSB, Holy Trinity Monastery in Butler, Pennsylva­ nia; and Dr. Frank Renkiewicz of the Immi­ gration History Research Center, who will also serve as chairman and project administrator. The committee has identified over forty-five newspapers wholly or heavily Carpatho- Ruthenian in content and recommended a schedule for microfilming based on the signifi­ cance and physical condition of the files. Any­ one who knows the location of Carpatho-Ruthe­ nian files is invited to contact a committee member or write directly to the Immigration History Research Center, 826 Berry St., St. Paul, MN 55114. • The S o c i e t y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v i s t s has begun a comprehensive archival security program. Major facets of the project will be supported by a $99,690 grant from the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities. Ann Morgan Campbell, executive director of the SAA, will direct the project, and Timo­ thy G. W alch has joined the society’s Chicago staff as associate director of the program. He will assume primary responsibility for imple­ mentation of various phases of the work plan. Kathryn M. Nelson will be program assistant for the project. The staff is now involved in a large-scale in­ vestigation of the nature and extent of the ar­ chival security problem and of possible solu­ tions. Legal and technical experts, manuscript dealers, as well as archivists and manuscript curators, will be consulted. The agenda for the program is as follows. A r registry of missing manuscripts will be estab­ lished by spring 1976. A format will be devised within the next few months and solicitation of listings will begin by the end of this year. A special section of the SAA Newsletter will be devoted to security developments. Eventually, distribution of security news will be broadened to include nonmember, interested parties. By fall 1976, a consultant service will make com­ petent experts available to archival institutions to advise them in the areas of security systems, internal archival procedures, legal problems, and other aspects of archival security. The project will culminate in 1977 with the publica­ tion of an archival security manual. For further information please write to the Associate Director, SAA Archival Security Pro­ gram, Society of American Archivists, Box 8198, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL 60680. 19 • W ith support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the A m e r i c a n A s s o c i a t i o n o f C o m m u n i t y a n d J u n i o r C o l l e g e s is es­ tablishing a Center for Community Education in its national headquarters office in W ashing­ ton, D.C. Primary purpose of the center, according to AACJC president, Edmund J . Gleazer, Jr., will be to develop greater awareness and under­ standing o f community education among the personnel of two-year institutions across the country. Additionally, he said, the center will facilitate closer working relationships between community and junior colleges and community schools. The AACJC center will jointly sponsor with other Mott-supported centers for community education workshops for personnel of commu­ nity colleges and community schools. It is also planned that four six-month internships in com­ munity education will be offered to individuals working on advanced degrees in community or higher education, with details to b e worked out as the project gets under way. Informational materials will be developed and widely dis­ tributed. A three-day national symposium on commu­ nity education will b e held to explore relation­ ships between the community school and com­ munity college movements— followed by re­ gional meetings to examine models of coopera­ tion. These and other meetings and workshops will be open to both faculty and administrators. Gleazer pointed out that the community school and community college movements are contributing in a variety o f ways to the expan­ sion of lifelong educational opportunities for all citizens. Establishm ent o f the Mott-sponsored AACJC center is calculated to bring faculty and staff of the schools and colleges closer together in fulfilling their goals. The AACJC center is the first to be estab­ lished within and operated by a national asso­ ciation under the Mott Foundation program for information and training in community educa­ tion. Funding, in the amount of $ 1 03,000 will be for one year— with extension of the program to be reviewed at the end of the year. • T he 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 formally endorses the report of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sci­ ence entitled T ow ard a National Program for Library and Inform ation Services. T he Associa­ tion congratulates the Commission for its lead­ ership in providing for the first time in our country’s history a plan for coordinating library and information resources and services on a na­ tional basis. It recognizes the extent to which the Commission has gone in securing the views not only of librarians, but of all segments of the information community in both the public and private sectors. A R L sees the resulting docu­ ment as a dynamic and flexible instrument of national policy in the library and information field, now representing the consensus of many groups but open to modification in the future as changing needs may require. Although the program document identifies many goals for action, it does not attempt to place these in any priority order. Implementing the entire national program will obviously take time, therefore the Association urges prompt action on certain of the goals identified by the Commission. In particular the A R L supports: ( 1 ) establishment of a national center or cen­ ters for resource sharing and interlibrary lend­ ing; ( 2 ) the designation of the Library of Con­ gress as the national bibliographic center; ( 3 ) provision of federal support for the major re­ search libraries of the country to assist them in their efforts toward improved access, manage­ ment, organization and development of their collections as national resources. T h e Association of Research Libraries has appreciated the opportunity of assisting the National Commission in the formulation of its National Program, and desires to lend it assist­ ance, as appropriate, as the plan is further de­ veloped and implemented in the future.— Adopted by the Membership of the Association o f Research Libraries October 16, 1975. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana-Cham­ paign is seeking applicants for its master’s de­ gree program from members of minority groups in the population which are underrepresented in the student body o f the school. Up to ten persons will be selected to begin graduate work next June. They will be offered one-half time assistantships requiring twenty hours of work each week and paying $ 4,340 a year plus exemption from tuition. This will be the seventh year for the program which has been supported in part by grants from the U.S. Office of Education and the Carnegie Corpora­ tion. Invitation to Reviewers Readers wishing to review books for C ollege & R esearch L ibraries are invited to write to the editor. Please indicate your special interests and qualifications relating to the kinds of books reviewed in the journal. Address inquiries to Rich­ ard D. Johnson, Editor, C ollege & R e­ search Libraries, Jam es M. M ilne L i­ brary, State University College, Oneonta, NY 13820. 20 Members of minority groups who expect to receive a bachelor’s degree next June are eligi­ ble, as well as those who already have complet­ ed their undergraduate education. Students are allowed up to two years to earn the M .S. de­ gree in a course of study planned individually with a faculty advisor. Further information is available from the Scholarship Program, Graduate School of L i­ brary Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, I L 61801. • T he world-famous L atin American Collec­ tion at the U n i v e r s i t y of T e x a s at Austin henceforth will bear the name of its equally renowned former director, D r. Nettie L ee B en­ son. Regents of the U T System, acting on a rec­ ommendation of President Lorene Rogers of U T Austin, officially designated the collection the N ettie L ee Benson Latin American C ollec­ tion. “I think that this is an appropriate honor to the woman who for many years has been the single guiding influence in the establishment and development of this preeminent collection,” Dr. Rogers wrote in her letter proposing the name change. Dr. Benson becam e head librarian o f the Latin American Collection in M arch 1942 and held that post until her retirement on August 31. She continues to teach in the history de­ partment, where she is a professor. She also has been a professor in the Graduate School of L i­ brary Science. Concurring in Dr. Rogers’ recommendation, the U T System administration noted that Dr. Benson is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books and articles on Mexican his­ tory and L atin American librarianship, adding: “In her position as head librarian of the Latin American Collection and as one of the prime movers in the L atin American Cooperative Ac­ quisitions Program and the Seminar on the Ac­ quisition of L atin American Library Materials, Dr. Benson has made additional impact on na­ tional and international Latin American librari­ anship.” P U B L I C A T I O N S • Two Denver, Colorado, librarians are the compilers of a new history directory. Carol M. Joy and Terry Ann Mood, librarians at Metro­ politan State College Library (part of the de­ veloping Auraria Higher Education Complex) in Denver, have compiled C olorado L o c a l H is­ tory: A Directory. This directory lists by county collections of local history to be found in li­ braries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and private collections in Colorado. T he entry for each collection gives information on subject areas covered by the collection, forms of material included, hours, use policy, and size. T h e directory was published through a grant from the Colorado Centennial-Bicen­ tennial Commission. The grant provides for free distribution, through the Colorado Library Association, to public, academic, and high school libraries in the state. Others may pur­ chase copies for $3.00 from the Colorado L i­ brary Association. Contact Susan Kaufmann, Executive Secretary, 1151 E ast Costilla Ave., L ittleton, CO 80122. • AMACOM, the publishing arm of Ameri­ can Management Associations, has just pub­ lished an unusual reference work of value to all concerned with the planning function. Through the AMA Center for Planning and Implementa­ tion in Hamilton, New York, it has brought out the 1975 issue of W . W . Simmons’ Exploratory Planning B riefs (75p ,, available in hardcover for $ 1 5 .0 0 ), which provides self-descriptions of the goals and methods of the future’s plan­ ning processes used by 2 03 organizations: cor­ porations, services, agencies and institutions, eight foreign governments, segments of the U.S. federal government, and thirty-two state governments. An unusual feature is the inclu­ sion of the name, title, address, and phone number of each planning officer who reported. • Norwegian-A merican N ew spapers in L u ­ ther C olleg e L ibrary lists the library’s holdings on microfilm of the largest collection of Nor­ wegian language newspapers published from 1847 to date. Entries are arranged alphabetically and in­ clude all available information regarding places and dates of publication, editors, frequency, and changes in title. Copies may be ordered from Luther College Library, Decorah, IA 5 2101; cost $7.50 postpaid. • Carnegie Corporation of New York is of­ fering without charge to university and other research libraries in the United States and Can­ ada nine volumes of the W r i t i n g s o f A n d r e w C a r n e g i e . This is the “uniform edition” pub­ lished by Doubleday, Doran in 1933, with the exception of the autobiography. T he number of sets is limited and requests will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Requests, includ­ ing a mailing label, should be sent by the chief librarian to Ms. Gloria Brown, Carnegie Cor­ poration of New York, 4 37 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022. • T he library of the University o f California at Davis is actively publishing a Chapbook se­ ries, available, upon request, to other institu­ tions on an exchange basis. Chapbook no. 2, Our Multi-Ethnic Origins an d A merican L iterary 21 Studies, by Brom W eber, is a paper read at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, held in conjunction with the Modern Language Association of America, December 28, 1974. Chapbook no. 3, H eresy in Linguis­ tics, by D. L. Olmsted, is a lecture given as the thirty-third annual Faculty Research Lecture on April 8, 1975, on the Davis campus. These two numbers are currently available; publications from the series are to appear approximately five times per year. To obtain copies, please send address infor­ mation and information (or a sample) of the publications offered on exchange to G ift & E x­ change Section, University of California L i­ brary, Davis, CA 95616. • “Academic Librarians and Their Profes­ sional Organizations,” a color videocassette pro­ duced by California State University, North­ ridge Libraries on behalf of the A CRL Com­ mittee on Chapters is now available to libraries, library schools, and interested groups of li­ brarians. According to Norman E . Tanis, chairman of the A CRL Committee on Chapters, the 3 6 :5 5 minute program features a free-wheeling, no holds barred debate by members of the panel. Members of the panel are: Page Ackerman, university librarian, University of California at Los Angeles; Mary Walters, technical services head, California State University, Los Angeles; Peter Watson, reference librarian, University of California at Los Angeles; Karin Nupoll, reference librarian, California State University, Northridge; George Bailey, associate library di­ rector, Claremont Colleges; and Linda Cris­ mond, technical services head, University of Southern California. Panel moderator is Nor­ man E . Tanis, director of University Libraries at CSUN. Television director is Mark Schau­ bert. The panel members address themselves to the pros and cons of development of local ACRL chapters, the education of librarians af­ ter the terminal degree, and the accessibility and conflicts among the various professional organizations. The videocassettes can be shown on any ¾-inch videocassette U-Matic player. Requests for borrowing the tape should be made to Nor­ man Tanis, Director of University Libraries, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91324. • The Spencer S. E c c les Health Sciences L i­ brary of the University of Utah announces the publication of MEDOC. This is a computerized index to U.S. government documents in medi­ cine and other health-related areas. Compiled under a government grant, M ED O C fills a gap in serving as a complete catalog for depositories for health science material, a bibliographic ref­ erence tool, or a current list for selecting and purchasing individual documents. There are about 4,000 items listed in the basic volume. Already over 2 00 libraries are subscribers. The arrangement is in four parts: ( 1 ) by Superintendent of Documents number, with complete bibliographic and purchasing data; ( 2 ) alphabetically by title; ( 3 ) by MeSH sub­ ject headings, and ( 4 ) by series numbers. T he basic cumulative volume covers 1 968- 74. Subsequent years will be published in quar­ terly supplements and an annual cumulative volume. Volume two, number 1 -2 (Ja n .-Ju n e 1 975) has also been published. The cost of Volume 1 ( 1 9 6 8 - 7 4 ) is $25.00; Annual Sub­ scription is $10.00. Orders for Volume 1 and/or a current sub­ scription, accompanied by checks, may be sent to M ED O C, Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U T 84112. • Microfilming Corporation of America an­ nounces the forthcoming publication of a major microform resource: T he Right Wing C ollec­ tion o f the University o f Iow a Libraries. This micropublication constitutes the largest and most comprehensive collection of twentieth- century American right wing publications ever offered, thereby closing a significant gap in the availability of scholarly materials for the study of this constant and increasingly important strain in American political life. Thousands of titles— chiefly serials, pamph­ lets, and other ephemera— will be drawn from the University of Iowa Libraries’ “Social Docu­ ments” collection. This collection, begun by Ralph Ellsworth, the university’s director of li­ braries for many years and a student of the American right wing, represents probably the longest-standing attempt to compile a compre­ hensive library of publications issued by the American right. In addition to more recent m a­ terials, the collection also includes many items which date back through the McCarthy period and even into the 1930s. Accompanying the microform collection will be an annotated bibliography that identifies the publications and provides subject and geo­ graphical information. The right wing has al­ ways been diverse in its manifestations and the annotated bibliography will aid scholars greatly in using this material for research. The American right has always maintained that it is the rightful heir to the basic principles on which the country was founded almost 200 years ago. This contention is loudly proclaimed throughout the University of Iowa collection, and the ready accessibility of significant por­ tions will enable scholars to assess this claim in the light of the Right W ing’s own arguments. 22 For more information on the Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, contact Jean Reid, Director of Information R e­ search, Microfilming Corporation of America, 21 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, NJ 07452; ( 2 0 1 ) 447-3000. • A completely up-to-date listing of useful sources for educators, librarians, and informa­ tion specialists has just been made available from the E R IC Clearinghouse on Information Resources. The thirty-three page Guide to Edu­ cational Resources, 1975-76 is designed to lead readers to standard sources of information for preliminary searches and to keep them abreast of the major current activities, products, sour­ ces, and innovations in educational resource tools. Chapters within the publication include: L o­ cating information; organizing information; general and social science reference; education reference (general and statistics, directories); guides to current literature and research; guide to funding; professional associations; human re­ sources; information and resource centers; and selection tools for books, curriculum, multi- media, and periodicals. Each entry is annotated in a concise, readable style, with prices and sources of materials given in nearly all cases. The 1 9 75-76 Guide is based on earlier guides published by the Far West Laboratory for Edu­ cational Research and Development and the Stanford Clearinghouse. Guide to Educational Resources, 1975-76 is available for $3.50 from: Box E , School of Ed ­ ucation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Checks made payable to “Box E ” must be included with orders. Quantity discounts are available. It also will be available from the E R IC Document Reproduction Service when its E D number is announced. • The results of a S u r v e y o f L i b r a r y I n ­ s t r u c t i o n P r o g r a m s in sixty-seven Pennsylva­ nia academic libraries and an indexed directory of the programs is available for $2.00 from the Pennsylvania Library Association, 100 Wood­ land Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15232. T he twenty­ five-page booklet was compiled by Sara Lou Whildin of Pennsylvania State University L i­ braries and was sponsored by the College & Research Libraries Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association. ■■ For out-of-print issues of College & Re­ search Libraries News, write to Uni­ versity Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Issues are avail­ able one year after date of publication.