College and Research Libraries By L E W I S C. C O F F I N Collecting Scientific and Technical Publications at the Library of Congress IT is T H E P O L I C Y of the L i b r a r y of Con-gress to collect extensively the cur- r e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s of the world in the fields of science a n d technology except for clinical medicine a n d technical agri- c u l t u r e (unless the medical a n d agricul- t u r a l p u b l i c a t i o n s are issued by n a t i o n a l governments). 1 T e c h n i c a l a g r i c u l t u r e a n d clinical medicine are usually ex- cepted because of the comprehensive ac- quisition p r o g r a m s of o u r sister institu- tions, the L i b r a r y of the D e p a r t m e n t of A g r i c u l t u r e a n d the N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y of Medicine, whose specialized a n d ex- tensive collections the L i b r a r y of Con- gress does n o t wish to d u p l i c a t e . T r a d i t i o n a l l y , the L i b r a r y of Con- gress has a t t e m p t e d to collect compre- hensively the official p u b l i c a t i o n s at the n a t i o n a l level of foreign g o v e r n m e n t s regardless of subject content. I n a d d i t i o n to the medical a n d agri- c u l t u r a l exceptions, the L i b r a r y is selec- tive in its acquisition of c u r r e n t l y pub- lished textbooks, translations, reprints, extracts, a n d separates. T h e last three are excluded w h e n the Library's collec- tions c o n t a i n the serial o r o t h e r publi- cations in which the m a t e r i a l originally a p p e a r e d . N o n - c u r r e n t scientific a n d technolog- ical p u b l i c a t i o n s are a c q u i r e d selectively. T h e d e t e r m i n i n g considerations i n c l u d e their availability by gift, exchange, trans- fer, or purchase; their i m p o r t a n c e ; and, 1 P a p e r p r e s e n t e d a t t h e m e e t i n g of t h e D i v i s i o n of C h e m i c a l L i t e r a t u r e , A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y , P i t t s - b u r g h , J a n u a r y 21, 1958. Mr. Coffin is Assistant Director, Proc- essing Department, Library of Congress. if available only by purchase, their cost. All materials are a c q u i r e d by one of the following methods: exchange, gift, trans- fer, purchase, or p u r s u a n t to law, includ- ing copyright deposit. Administratively, acquisitions m a t t e r s are h a n d l e d t h r o u g h two divisions u n d e r the d i r e c t i o n of the processing d e p a r t m e n t office. All pur- chases are h a n d l e d by the o r d e r divi- sion, a n d acquisitions by all o t h e r means are h a n d l e d by the exchange a n d gift division. For the 1957-58 fiscal year the L i b r a r y has an a p p r o p r i a t i o n of $320,- 000 f o r the purchase of materials in all fields except law, a n d to d e f r a y expen- ses such as travel, c o m m u n i c a t i o n , a n d bulk-freight charges. A n a d d i t i o n a l ap- p r o p r i a t i o n of $90,000 is available f o r the purchase of legal materials a n d to pay miscellaneous expenses. I n 1951 the L i b r a r y e x p a n d e d its sys- tem of b l a n k e t orders for the acquisi- tion of non-serial materials issued out- side this country. At the present time there are some 240, a p p r o x i m a t e l y half of which are for legal materials. Each b l a n k e t order specifies t h a t the h o l d e r of the order, w h o may be a dealer, a university, a U n i t e d States official at a foreign post or o t h e r agent of the Li- brary of Congress, is authorized either to purchase a n d send c u r r e n t publica- tions in all fields of knowledge w i t h the exceptions w h i c h I have m e n t i o n e d a n d certain o t h e r exceptions which may be peculiar to the area, or to purchase and f o r w a r d c u r r e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s in specific subject fields. I n countries where na- tional bibliographies are issued current- ly the agent is instructed to send by air- mail two copies of the c u r r e n t issues, one 474 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES of which he marks to indicate those titles which are being sent, those titles which he plans to send, a n d those on which he has questions. W h e n the marked bibliography is received, it is checked by the Library's recommending officers for titles which in their opinion should not have been selected by the blanket order holder and for recom- m e n d a t i o n of additional titles. T h i s bib- liography is then reviewed in the order division for compliance with the terms of the blanket order, for compliance with the Library's acquisitions policies, and for search of the additional recom- mendations. A p p r o p r i a t e orders are then placed with the dealer and he is advised periodically on his compliance. For several areas blanket orders are not used by reason of the presence in the Library of area, language, and sub- ject specialists who recommend current titles f r o m national bibliographies, spe- cial lists, etc., which in many instances are received by air mail. T h e blanket order system has proved to be especially advantageous in acquir- ing i m p o r t a n t foreign books automati- cally and quickly after publication on the basis of actual examination. It has the advantage, too, of insuring receipt of commercial publications which are issued in small editions. Subscriptions for serials are placed on an individual title basis, not u n d e r the blanket order system; b u t every blanket order holder is requested to send a sample copy of each new serial appear- ing in his area or subject field. Cur- rently the Library spends a b o u t $140,000 a year on serial continuations for all types of materials in all subject fields. Exchange has long been the tradi- tional method for the acquisition of of- ficial documents, the publications of sci- entific and learned societies, a n d those of academic institutions. T h e Library of Congress is especially f o r t u n a t e in hav- ing available for use in its exchanges (currently some sixteen thousand) vast quantities of material. T h e s e may be cat- egorized as (1) the current official pub- lications of the U n i t e d States Govern- ment (125 copies of each publication ex- cepting confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public char- acter—See 44 United States Code 139 8c 139a); (2) the publications of the Li- brary of Congress (although U n i t e d States official publications, they are gen- erally considered and h a n d l e d as a sepa- rate category); (3) surplus duplicates, a n d (4) current commercially published American books which are purchased for use in the Library's priced exchange program. T h e Library's exchange arrangements stem f r o m the following sources: (1) the Brussels Convention of 1886; (2) the Ex- ecutive Agreements concluded on behalf of the U n i t e d States with foreign nations by the D e p a r t m e n t of State, in which the Library of Congress is n a m e d as the recipient of the foreign documents a n d is charged with implementing the agree- ments for the U n i t e d States; (3) infor- mal agreements concluded by the Li- brary with domestic and foreign insti- tutions and foreign governments with which there are no bases for formal agreements; and (4) priced exchange agreements. T h e Library's agreements pursuant to the Brussels Conventions and the Executive Agreements encom- pass currently issued official publica- tions solely; the informal agreements may include current a n d non-current official and non-official publications, in- cluding surplus duplicates; while priced exchange arrangements generally em- brace current non-official publications. T o the eleven active "Brusselians" and the forty-five Executive Agreement countries, and to forty-nine foreign juris- dictions with which there are informal arrangements, the Library sends either a "full set" of documents consisting of about eight thousand pieces printed an- SEPTEMBER 1958 475 nually at the U n i t e d States G o v e r n m e n t P r i n t i n g Office or a " p a r t i a l set" m a d e u p of a b o u t o n e t h o u s a n d pieces a year f r o m t h e same source. I n r e t u r n the Li- brary expects to receive a comprehensive set of the official p u b l i c a t i o n s issued cur- rently by the f o r e i g n exchange partners. Formerly by statute, now u n d e r reg- ulations issued p u r s u a n t to the Surplus P r o p e r t y Act of 1950, the L i b r a r y re- ceives a n n u a l l y f r o m o t h e r federal li- braries in the District of C o l u m b i a be- tween two a n d one-half a n d three mil- lion pieces w h i c h are d e e m e d by t h e m to be of n o f u r t h e r use to their agencies. A b o u t 98 per cent of this material is non-current. As the receipts are re- viewed, materials are selected for the Library's collections a n d for exchange use. T h e r e m a i n d e r is disposed of by transfer to o t h e r federal libraries, by sale to dealers a n d others, by d o n a t i o n to A m e r i c a n p u b l i c a n d private educa- tional institutions, a n d by sale as waste paper, in t h a t order. Because of the quality of surplus duplicates available for exchange use, n o a t t e m p t is m a d e to list them. E x c h a n g e p a r t n e r s are asked to indicate subject fields of interest a n d the exchange assistants select titles for them w i t h i n these fields. Exchange m a t t e r s are h a n d l e d by f o u r sections of the exchange a n d g i f t divi- sion: the A m e r i c a n a n d British exchange section, the E u r o p e a n exchange section, the o r i e n t a l i a exchange section, a n d the H i s p a n i c exchange section. T h e s e sec- tions are organized o n a geographical a n d language basis, a n d the staff of each section works w i t h exchange relations occurring in the area assigned to it. U n d e r this division of responsibilities, the exchange staff may explore the pos- sibilities of a c q u i r i n g materials desired by the L i b r a r y in their respective areas beyond the mere acceptance or rejec- tion of exchange offers. Each section h e a d is responsible for c o n d u c t i n g a country-by-country survey w i t h i n his area of o p e r a t i o n to d e t e r m i n e the ex- istence of scientific a n d learned societies a n d academic institutions, to discover the p u b l i c a t i o n s of these c u l t u r a l bodies, to d e t e r m i n e those p u b l i c a t i o n s which the L i b r a r y receives, to ascertain f r o m the r e c o m m e n d i n g a n d selection officers the desirability of a c q u i r i n g those n o t received by the L i b r a r y a n d to a t t e m p t to acquire by exchange those desired for a d d i t i o n to the collections. T h i s survey responsibility extends also to the review of foreign g o v e r n m e n t a l agencies to de- t e r m i n e w h e t h e r needed official publi- cations may be a c q u i r e d u n d e r existing agreements or w h e t h e r new documents- exchange agreements should be conclud- ed. I n all these activities the advice a n d assistance of the various divisions of the reference d e p a r t m e n t a n d the law li- brary play a tremendously i m p o r t a n t role. T h e L i b r a r y is especially f o r t u n a t e in b e i n g able to call u p o n the Depart- m e n t of State a n d the U n i t e d States In- f o r m a t i o n Agency, i n c l u d i n g their posts abroad, for aid a n d i n f o r m a t i o n in its exchange a n d purchase programs. Of p a r t i c u l a r assistance in locating possible exchange p a r t n e r s is P a r t II o f t h e Handbook on the International Exchange of Publications, second edi- tion, p u b l i s h e d by U N E S C O in 1956, a n d c u r r e n t exchange offers listed in the m o n t h l y issues of the Unesco Bulletin for Libraries. T h e Handbook c o n t a i n s in P a r t II, Section I, the names a n d ad- dresses of i n t e r n a t i o n a l organizations, subdivided as to i n t e r g o v e r n m e n t a l or- ganizations a n d non-governmental or- ganizations, a n d in P a r t II, Section II, an o u t l i n e of the exchange activities in eighty-four countries a n d thirty-seven territories, i n c l u d i n g the work of the n a t i o n a l exchange centers, addresses of n a t i o n a l bibliographical centers, a n d ex- change offers of i n d i v i d u a l institutions. C o u n t r i e s are a r r a n g e d in a l p h a b e t i c a l order a n d a separate index to t h e m is included. T h e section is a r r a n g e d in the 476 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES form of a directory, since it consists mainly of addresses and titles of publi- cations. W i t h i n each country the sub- jects of materials for possible exchange are indicated by numerals f r o m 0, for general interest and bibliography, to 16 for applied science and technology. Physics and chemistry constitute cate- gory 12 in this classification. O n e notes that only three institutions are listed as exchange sources for the USSR: T h e Lenin State Library, Mos- cow, the F u n d a m e n t a l Library of the Social Sciences Section of the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and the Academy of Sciences, D e p a r t m e n t of I n t e r n a t i o n a l Exchange, Leningrad. W h e n the Hand- book was compiled, the Library of Con- gress's exchanges with institutions in the USSR were restricted to the three men- tioned, b u t d u r i n g the last two years LC and many other American libraries have f o u n d that direct exchanges may be concluded with other Russian institu- tions. At present, the Library of Con- gress has some 180 such exchanges. T o make its receipts of materials gen- erally known, the Library of Congress publishes, in addition to numerous mon- ographs a n d its p r i n t e d catalog cards, the following periodicals: T h e National Union Catalog, a Cu- mulative Author List Representing Li- brary of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American li- braries which includes titles with im- p r i n t dates of 1956 and subsequent years. New Serial Titles (alphabetical ar- rangement), a monthly list with a n n u a l cumulations which are self-cumulative over five-year periods, contains serials commencing publication after Decem- ber 31, 1949. Some 280 libraries report their new serial titles to this publication. New Serial Titles—Classed Subject Arrangement contains the same material as that in the alphabetical arrangement b u t is available in monthly issues only. T h e East European Accessions Index is a monthly record of publications issued in the languages of the following East E u r o p e a n countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, H u n g a r y , Lat- via, L i t h u a n i a , Poland, R u m a n i a , a n d Yugoslavia. It includes m o n o g r a p h i c publications issued after 1944 and peri- odical publications issued after 1950 which are currently received by the Li- brary of Congress and, as reported, by about 120 other American libraries. T h e Monthly Index of Russian Ac- cessions is a record of publications in the Russian language issued in a n d out- side the Soviet Union. It includes mono- graphic publications issued a f t e r 1944 and periodical publications issued after 1946 which are currently received by the Library of Congress and, as reported, by 155 other American libraries. T h e Southern Asia Accessions List is a monthly record of publications per- taining to Southern Asia currently ac- cessioned by the Library of Congress and some thirty cooperating libraries. T h e List includes monographs in several lan- guages of South Asia and Southeast Asia bearing an i m p r i n t of 1947 or later. Se- lected articles f r o m periodicals in West- ern languages and periodicals in the m a j o r vernacular languages of these Asian areas, published since J a n u a r y 1954, are included. T h e Monthly Checklist of State Pub- lications lists those documents of the states and territories of the U n i t e d States received by the Library of Congress. T h e Library of Congress Catalog, Books: Subjects, a Cumulative List of Works Represented by Library of Con- gress Printed Cards. T h e possibility of e x p a n d i n g this publication to become a u n i o n subject index is now being ex- plored. It should be noted that all of these publications except the Monthly Check- list of State Publications and the Library of Congress Catalog, Books: Subjects SEPTEMBER 1958 477 contain the r e p o r t e d holdings of o t h e r A m e r i c a n libraries. For o t h e r periodical a n d m o n o g r a p h i c p u b l i c a t i o n s of the Library, o n e s h o u l d consult the Annual Report of the Li- brarian of Congress a n d the c u r r e n t is- sues of the Library's Information Bulle- tin. Because the accessions lists of Rus- sian a n d East E u r o p e a n materials con- tain most of the titles currently received in this c o u n t r y f r o m their respective areas a n d because of their w e a l t h of de- tail, it appears w o r t h w h i l e to describe t h e m f u r t h e r . T h e Monthly Index of Russian Ac- cessions consists of three parts, w i t h the first two a r r a n g e d u n d e r seventeen b r o a d subject classes: Part A lists m o n o g r a p h i c l i t e r a t u r e w i t h titles b o t h t r a n s l i t e r a t e d a n d translated i n t o English; Part B, lists R u s s i a n periodicals w i t h their transliter- ated titles a n d the tables of contents of each issue translated i n t o English; a n d Part C serves as a n English subject g u i d e to the m o n o g r a p h s a n d periodical arti- cles listed in each issue. I n V o l u m e IX, completed in M a r c h 1957, the n u m b e r of subject i n d e x entries for periodical articles a n d m o n o g r a p h s reached 137,797 of which, it is estimated, over 70 per cent were in the fields of science a n d technol- ogy. (At the L i b r a r y of Congress these fields are treated in separate classifica- tion schedules u n d e r G e o g r a p h y a n d An- thropology, Science, Medicine, Agri- culture, T e c h n o l o g y , M i l i t a r y Science a n d Naval Science.) Over eight t h o u s a n d subject headings are employed in each m o n t h l y issue of Part C. If, for example, one is interested in artificial satellites, he will find u n d e r this subject entry in the N o v e m b e r 1957 issue, eight titles in English followed in each instance by the periodical title a n d issue i n w h i c h the article a p p e a r e d . Similarly, ninety- seven article a n d book references can be f o u n d u n d e r thirty-nine general chemical subject entries in the letter C a n d sev- eral h u n d r e d o t h e r references can be f o u n d for specific chemical topics in oth- er sections of the a l p h a b e t i c a l subject guide. T h u s , the research worker w h o does n o t r e a d Russian b u t does read English may d e t e r m i n e those c u r r e n t Russian language accessions in his sub- ject field which may be w o r t h having translated for his study. I n the East European Accessions In- dex m o n o g r a p h i c a n d periodical titles are a r r a n g e d by country a n d g r o u p e d u n d e r the seventeen general classes w i t h m o n o g r a p h s a n d periodicals separately alphabetized u n d e r each class. Each m o n o g r a p h is listed in the original lan- guage or in transliteration followed by a n English translation of the title. Each periodical is listed in the original lan- guage or in transliteration followed by a descriptive a n n o t a t i o n in English. A listing of the contents in English is pro- vided for selected periodicals i n accord- ance w i t h their i m p o r t a n c e a n d the availability of staff. T h i s index, too, con- tains a subject g u i d e in English to the m o n o g r a p h i c a n d periodical p u b l i c a t i o n s analyzed in it. I n v o l u m e VI, completed in December 1957, the n u m b e r of sub- ject i n d e x entries f o r periodical articles a n d m o n o g r a p h s reached 135,664 of which, it is estimated, over 50 per cent were in the fields of science a n d technol- ogy. Over 25 per cent of the Library's clas- sified collections consists of materials in the areas of science a n d technology. T h r o u g h its science division the L i b r a r y offers reference a n d bibliographical serv- ices o n its materials in these fields in- c l u d i n g its extensive collection of U n i t e d States G o v e r n m e n t scientific reports, for which it m a i n t a i n s o p e n catalogs that may be consulted by any r e a d e r visiting the library. M o n o g r a p h s are generally available on loan f r o m the L i b r a r y u n d e r usual (Continued on page 495) 478 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES b e c o m e v a c a n t i n J u n e 1959 as a r e s u l t of t h e r e s i g n a t i o n of A n n e F . J o n e s , w h o h a s h e l d t h e p o s t f o r t h e p a s t seven years. A p - p l i c a t i o n s f r o m p e r s o n s w i t h a p p r o p r i a t e e x p e r i e n c e i n c o l l e g e o r u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i e s a r e i n v i t e d . F o r f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n , w r i t e t o Miss E l i z a b e t h R a l s t o n , N e a r E a s t Col- lege A s s o c i a t i o n , 40 W o r t h S t r e e t , N e w Y o r k , N . Y . R U T G E R S U N I V E R S I T Y G r a d u a t e S c h o o l of L i b r a r y Service h a s b e e n a w a r d e d $25,000 by t h e U . S. Office of E d u c a t i o n t o c o n d u c t a p i l o t s t u d y of t h e e f f e c t i v e n e s s of c e n t r a l l i b r a r y service i n e l e m e n t a r y schools. P a r t of t h e Office of E d u c a t i o n ' s C o o p e r a t i v e R e - s e a r c h P r o g r a m , t h i s p r o j e c t is t h e first t o b e s u p p o r t e d i n t h e l i b r a r y field. P r o f e s s o r M a r y V. G a v e r will b e r e s e a r c h d i r e c t o r of t h e e i g h t e e n - m o n t h s t u d y . ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY p r e s e n t e d its c e n t e n n i a l c i t a t i o n t o Sister M a r y Bere- n i c e , R . S . M . , L i b r a r i a n of M e r c y H o s p i t a l , B u f f a l o . T h e a w a r d was " i n r e c o g n i t i o n of h e r o u t s t a n d i n g l i b r a r y service i n h e r re- l i g i o u s c o m m u n i t y , t o t h e C a t h o l i c L i b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n a n d t o t h e D i o c e s e of B u f f a l o . " A N E W P U B L I S H I N G H O U S E h a s b e e n f o u n d e d t o a d v a n c e s c h o l a r l y p u b l i s h i n g i n t h i s c o u n t r y . U n i v e r s i t y P u b l i s h e r s , I n c . , 59 E a s t 5 4 t h S t r e e t , N e w Y o r k 22, is a n i n d e - p e n d e n t n o n p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n t h a t will p r o v i d e c o m p l e t e e d i t o r i a l , m a n u f a c t u r i n g a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n services t o a c a d e m i c a n d n o n p r o f i t i n s t i t u t i o n s . I n a d d i t i o n t o w o r k f o r u n i v e r s i t i e s t h a t lack t h e i r o w n presses, U n i v e r s i t y P u b l i s h e r s will p r o d u c e i t e m s w i t h its o w n i m p r i n t . F r a n c i s R . B e l l a m y , f o r m e r d i r e c t o r of A s s o c i a t e d C o l l e g e Presses, is p r e s i d e n t of t h e firm. A L A r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s a t c o l l e g i a t e cere- m o n i e s t h i s f a l l i n c l u d e M R S . R O D N E Y M . CHADWICK, a s s i s t a n t c a t a l o g e r a t R u s s e l l Sage C o l l e g e , a t t h e i n a u g u r a t i o n of R i c h a r d G i l m a n F o l s o m as p r e s i d e n t of R e n s s e l a e r P o l y t e c h n i c I n s t i t u t e , T r o y , N.Y., O c t o b e r 4; M i s s M A R I O N B. G R A D Y , l i b r a r i a n of B a l l S t a t e T e a c h e r s C o l l e g e , a t t h e i n a u g u r a t i o n of R o b e r t H . R e a r d o n as p r e s i d e n t of A n - d e r s o n C o l l e g e a n d T h e o l o g i c a l S e m i n a r y , A n d e r s o n , I n d . , O c t o b e r 11; WYMAN W . PARKER, l i b r a r i a n of W e s l e y a n U n i v e r s i t y , a t t h e i n a u g u r a t i o n of F r a n c i s H o r n as presi- d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y of R h o d e I s l a n d , K i n g s t o n , R . I . , O c t o b e r 15; FELIX E . HIRSCH, l i b r a r i a n of T r e n t o n S t a t e C o l l e g e , a t t h e i n a u g u r a t i o n of K . R . 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