College and Research Libraries


Editorial 
Besides noting a change in cover format, we hope that readers of 

this journal will detect other changes. While we intend to continue 
reporting the results of scholarly research of interest to academic li-
brarians, we want to place more emphasis on current affairs. Problems 
confronting academic librarians deserve a thorough airing: the younger 
professional's struggle to achieve recognition and promotion, for ex-
ample, or the increasing obstacles to financing academic libraries, or 
the implications of automation in academic library administration and 
services. 

In this issue we have initiated a discussion of four aspects of aca-
demic status. There are more than two sides to any problem, and this 
journal is open to those who can contribute in a literate and intelligent 
fashion, preferably both at the same time. 

Letters to the editor will be a regular feature. We encourage and 
will publish substantive replies, pro and con, to papers which have 
appeared in the journal. We assume that authors are prepared stoutly 
to defend their views, their methodology, and their facts when they 
submit a manuscript for publication. 

Members of the profession will be invited to prepare guest editorials 
on issues about which they feel strongly. And on occasion the editors 
may ride a favorite hobbyhorse. 

We expect to review more books than in the past, and we will list 
on the "Books Received, page those current titles which we will not 
review but which deserve notice. We will continue to reprint relevant 
ERIC abstracts. Library doctoral students are urged to submit sum-
maries of their research; our only requirement is that the topic be of 
interest to academic librarians and that the manuscript be pruned of 
deadly dissertationese. 

The principal objective of College & Research Libraries is to report 
the results of scholarly research. We hope this does not preclude the 
possibility of its being interesting, even exciting. During Eric Moon's 
tenure as editor of Library I ournal, though many often disagreed with 
him, his journal was not dull. A number of people have asked us what 
we would like to see this journal become. Our answer: more interesting. 

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On Frida~, Fellruar~ 27, 1970, 
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Joseph Sabin 

SELECTED AMERICANA FROM SABIN'S 

DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING 

TO AMERICA, FROM ITS DISCOVERY 

TO THE PRESENT TIME 

"J OST Cause Press is publishing, in microform, volumes from 
..1.l....J Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its 

Disco very to the Present Time . We publish volumes relating 
to the Americas, which are textually significant, ·with primary empha-
sis on North America. Thus many translations and subsequent edi-
tions are being omitted. 

We have lists printed of the volumes we publish as supplements to 
our catalog in order that "The community of scholars can make the 
greatest use of this material." :~The headings of each title are copies 
of Library of Congress catalog cards. We hope to ship approximately 
600 volumes each year. 

Approximately 1412 vo lumes,* postpaid ... ... . ... ... ..... ... $10,590.00 

On orders placed after February 27, 1970, thepricewillbe$15,885.00. 

A set of catalog cards will be included with this shipment, at 
no additional charge. 

*Duplicates of items already in library collections may be returned 
for credit within six months after receipt of shipment. 

:~"Planning for Scholarly Photocopying, " a Report Prepared for the American 
Council of Learned Societies, PMLA, LXXIX No. 4, part II (September, 1964, 
Preprint), 8. 

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